THE GATHERING

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: NED
Style: emotional atmospheric metal / trip rock

nine years since the last full-length, including a three year hiatus, it looks like Dutch visionaries did not want to rush things up, rather focusing on right vibes and inspiration to fill their new compositions with, what is quite obvious having in mind the intuitiveness of their previous releases - to better the perfection of Disclosure would be damn tough task to do, so in a way they alter the approach, returning to a spacey, light-and-shade direction associated with How to Measure a Planet? times, added to the trademark melancholic blend of electronics, prog and atmospheric rock, occasionally moving towards heavier, dark and doomy territories, so the graphic design of the record is a good reflection of the balance between light and darkness that such music implies; Dutch gatefold sleeve marbled orange vinyl edition comes with an embossed golden foil print on cover and pro-printed lyric inner sleeve