My Reaction to Infinite Granite by Deafheaven 

If you want to hear Sunbather mixed with Infinite Granite check out Ordinary Corrupt Human Love. To me its the best Deafheaven album. Sooooo gooooood

I think that their previous album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, acts as a good gateway to where they are now. It seems like a logical evolution after seeing their progression over the years. That being said, Infinite Granite is still a lot to take in but I’m loving the journey so far!:)

Your's Infinite Granite album review is much more convincing than the fantano review. Thank you for the great review~ 😀😀

I really LOVE your reactions song to song of this album. Very happy you're enjoying your Deafheaven travel, hope to see you reacting to their previous albums!

Great review Molly, I got into Deafheaven through Cody and Mogwai and this was one of my favourite albums of last year

Yes! There was quite a bit m83 I noticed in this album too, especially dead cities, dawn. Love the album a lot, especially being a good contrast to the rest of their discography, each having their own vibes. Excited to hear your first thoughts on Judah and Bermuda whenever you get to them.

listening to Deafheaven's music is some of the most spiritual experiences I've ever had with music ! .. this a band that's needs to be heard by everyone at least once before you die !

Loved that reaction, also was pleasantly surprised to see that you've had goosebumps at the exact same moments as I did! lol

You should check Alcest. They had similar route years ago, from Black metal to Shoegaze / dream pop (Shelter album)

Really enjoyed this, your channel has been a great discovery! I have to add my voice to the chorus of people recommending Alcest - they are a special band :)

To achieve the new sound, the band enlisted producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen, best known as Beck’s longtime bassist and for his work with electronic-based pop artists such as M83, Paramore, and Metric. So I have to say bravo and good ear 👂

This one is kind of a transitional album from them, so it's really interesting that you went right into it as your second listen lol. I personally really enjoyed this, but it's better in context once you've heard their third album New Bermuda, which has more of their black metal sound you like from the band, and their fourth album, which is a mix of that sound and this new one. I say try their other albums out, they're fantastic no matter what.

love how you can appreciate just about anything music wise. There are so many people who will never understand how beautiful heavy music can be (not that this is the heaviest stuff ever)

This album is a grower for me. I am enjoying Lament for Wasps and Villain a lot more on repeat listens. Unfortunately, I think the album is just a little predictable. I can’t even really get into Other Language simply because it follows such a similar formula that a lot of the other tracks on the album follow. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad album at all. What always matters is if the songs are GOOD, which they are. Mombasa is incredibly powerful, I shed tears when the ending came in. Having that classic deafheaven moment felt very cathartic. I think if the band can put out a good album of material like this on their first try, then their potential is very high moving forward. Great reaction! I listened to Loathe “I let it in and it took everything” because you mentioned it in the Sunbather reaction. Enjoyed it a lot!

When you said you got goosebumps I freaked because at the exact moment you said it so did I, in blur just did it for me

This album really grew on me and I can’t stop listening to it definitely the best album I’ve heard in a while

Villain is my fav track off this album, although the album in it's entirety is absolutely phenomenal!

Listen to them all! There is a bridge to this in the later albums.

New bermuda is their best album in terms of the heavy side of the band. It captures the Perfect balance between metal and the melodies of this album. Infinite granite for what it is is an amazing album.

Hey, just discovered your channel. Enjoying your reactions! Please do some Alcest reactions in the future (Especially the Les Voyages de l'Âme or Kodama albums)! Cheers!

What I find so interesting about this album vs OCHL is that in between there they released "Black Brick" as a standalone single, which is arguably the heaviest, black-metally song they've released. That song is INTENSE. And then they follow it up with unapologetic shoegaze. Incredible. Also, I love your excitement each time the harsh vocals come in! lol

Nice, 😀👌 no había escuchado esta banda. 👍

PLS do Ordinary Corrupt Human Love it's just beauty in sound!

This album is amazing, every outro is fantastic. They have come to understand that shoegaze is one of the best genres out there.

I highly recommend Thornhill - The Dark Pool, an amazing album pretty similar to Loathe. Also Northlane - Alien is an absolutely amazing and impactful metalcore record that does some of the most interesting things I’ve heard in years.

Awesome that you are checking this album out. I just heard it for the first time yesterday and I love it. Same as you I had only heard Sunbather before listening to this album. Of course this album has been divisive between fans for taking out most of the black metal out of their blackgaze sound and going almost full shoegaze. My summarization of this album is this: is it a good Deafheaven album? No. Is it a really good shoegaze album? Yes. All in all if they stick with this sound I'm in for it and if they go back to the sound of Sunbather I'm also in for it.

Hi Molly, I have appreciated your videos about Loathe and Holding Abscense albums and now same for your thoughts on Infinite Granite from Deafheaven . Since we're talking about shoegaze I highly recommend you Holy Fawn-Death Spells album, really a heavy atmospheric shoegaze Masterpiece. Cheers from Italy🙂

I understand people's complaints about this album but I actually think I like it more than Sunbather. I agree that the restraint makes the intensity have more of an impact. That's one thing I like about some Tool songs.

Love this new sound. FULL SHOEGAZE. My opinion is, though, you should have checked out their other albums, first. As great as Sunbather is, their other albums do have moments of melody in them. Especially Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, which is just as good as Sunbather, in my opinion

A lot of comments comparing this to m83 but it goes back further to the late 80s/early 90s shoegaze bands like Slowdive, MBV, Chapterhouse and Ride. If you don’t know who those bands are stop everything and go check them out now. You won’t be disappointed.

I love your reactions videos 🖤 do you think you can reacts to the first Korn or Slipknot Album and if you mess with it maybe the rest of their discography?

I love their mombasa like they combine their previous music and the new one

I recently just returned to this album, didn't really give it a chance when it came out. I love it now, it sounds like a completely new band but that's not a bad thing. It's got a lighter vibe and a I can play it at work. Their guitarist has some really nice licks and the passages are so dreamy, he's like a more heavy metal version of Johnny Marr or something aha

This album was the biggest grower for me. As a huge fan of their previous sound, I was taken aback quite a bit. But it wasn't until the last 2 songs, Other Language and Mombasa, when it started to really grow on me. I think even though this is definitely uncharted territory for them, it still VERY much feels like a Deafheaven album in the way it flows and feels. In a vague unexplainable way.

Daniel Tracy is the drummer, a grand master of drums if you ask me. But I can say the same of the guitar of Kerry McCoy or the rest of the band. They really stand out and in an ideal world they would get the recognition they deserve. Well, at least now they have yours!!

great non-pretentious review for a band the basement-heshers love to hate. i frickin’ love this album.

Also highly recommend you check out Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, the album before this. It's kind of a combination of this album and their previous black metal stylings.

Hay. May we have some Mogwei? Cheers. As they do the soft/subtle the VERY loud is so impactful.

Mombasa is the art of integrating blastbeats into a shoegaze song.

Other deafheaven goosebumps moments for me: about 6 minutes into Glint off of OCHL album. And the outro to Luna from New Bermuda

I recommend Roads To Judah and Demo both are My personal favorites.

go back to their other records too!

I think they still need to polish this softer approach BUT the album sounds gorgeous from start to finish. As much as I love Sunbather, I wouldn't mind if they made another album like this.

I'm certain that the jump from Sunbather straight to Infinite Granite is way more jarring than having listened to New Bermuda and OCHL when they were released. This album is almost a mediocre M. Night Shyamalan twist... everybody has seen it coming, not all are happy with it. :) And to be honest... it took me a couple of repeats to really get into this album. At first I got some serious buyers remorse for splurging hard on the vinyl pre-order, but now I'm happy with it. There's some tracks, or portions of them, I just overlook but then it just pulls me right back in with Boards of Canada-like electronics, "screams as an instrument", and simply beautiful instrumentals. I somewhat hope they take a step back towards OCHL for their next album, but I'm along for the ride even if they don't. P.S. Gotta love that 2nd half of Mombasa. The discord between vocals and instruments is just sooooo damn good. I wish there was more of it.

I would enjoy you doing a review of Hum’s “Downward Is Heavenward” or “You’d Prefer An Astromaut”

OCHL is still my favorite Deafheaven release by far, but this was an incredibly solid project imo.

you missed out on a "surf rock" album amalgamation follow up to sunbather.and the follow up album to that album is their San Francisco amalgamation of all 3. and infinite granite is an amalgamation of the best and worst parts of slowdive.

Try to listening animals as leaders, please. I love How you react

I'm a new Deafheaven listener too and have immersed myself in their catalog all year. The direction of the new album really didn't surprise me. Their sound has always been shoegaze-influenced and they experimented with "clean" vocals on the last few albums. So I like the new album. The only thing that doesn't work for me is the "Neptune" track which just slows the momentum for me. You're in for quite a ride hearing the rest of their albums.

Hey, idk if you are like single, but if you are, we should talk. I think you are amazing! 😂

I am all for artists changing their sound trying new things but unfortunately i didn't get much out of this album other than 'that was a decent listen'. While projects by DH like Sunbather left me speechless and emotionally rammed. If you enjoy this metallic reverb soaked post-rock sound tho, I highly HIGHLY recommend We Lost The Sea. In particular their masterpiece album "Departure Songs". One of the greatest post-rock albums of the 2010's.

They are regressing to shoe gaze 1985

A lot of people are comparing this album to sunbather which is really weird and unfair considering there are two whole ass albums in between the two of them.

Tool or Mr Bungle will blow you away

On one hand, I’m happy that the album has found its listeners, but on the other…what a massive disappointment. As generic as could be, sounds like a hundred other pop post rock albums, vocals lost all power and individuality, but they have the audacity to tease you with two incredibly short parts(particularly the ending of Mombasa) that remind you of how screamingly great Deafheaven can be. I pray to god they leave this album behind and try something else next go around.