The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

Following up on the award-winning 2006 album (awarded the prestigious OMFG, this Freaking Owns My Face Award), The Dear Hunter somehow managed to own faces with even more cat-like precision and time-honored ninja craftwork. The new album, while being titled ridiculously long and ruining my blog layout, covers so much ground musically that trying to place it in a genre will probably result in your mind caving into a black hole (so don’t do it).

It’s rare to find truly artistic albums, in that everything comes together in such a way that you find yourself sitting back and thinking, “Woa, this dude knows what he’s doing.” The Dear Hunter is doing what a great number of bands are already doing, but he’s doing it much better and in such a way that it doesn’t sound like a band looking for their hook.

Conclusion: WTF, brosephs? Get your ass to Mars and buy this album.

Here’s a snippet of Blood of the Rose that may make you crap yourself from the awesomeness.

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