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Minor Octopath Traveler 2 spoiler: The bonus boss requires more effort and planning than expected, so it'll be a while longer before I can finish it. Not a complaint, just a more significant difficulty spike than I thought there'd be.

And I'm suddenly in a mood for Deafheaven today, so let's work our way through the rest of the Sunbather album; we already covered 3 of the 7 tracks on this page alone, so we might as well finish things. I shouldn't as no one suggested doing so, but I want to and enough songs from the album have been nominated that it's vaguely relevant.

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Deafheaven - Please Remember:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gTyR63h4FXXxOIXTZYDzv?si=9a2d9b76d3af4ada

Estimated Score: 67.9993

A very unexpected track, one of those where you're never quite sure where it's going or what's about to happen. I suggest not reading this until you've heard this song, if you were interested in hearing it at all. The song opens with someone from another band reading a few paragraphs from "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being", and it's really a quite nice reading. I still have a certain fondness for spoken words and odd samples, so I'm here for it. It then kinda goes into this industrial noise section which is.... I don't know that I want to say pleasing, but I enjoy it--the stark contrast between the first two sections seems like it should be too much, but I like it. And then we break through the noise to rather quiet, subdued music which is also nice. I wouldn't have expected the disparate sections to work together as well as they do, so I rather like this track.

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Deafheaven - Vertigo:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Oe2Um6K7AsiDjKOBKKbZP?si=98f6e7533b864ebe

Estimated Score: 60.00

A longer track, but a welcome one. It's... well, very much a Deafheaven song. The vocals that I can't make out, the lyrics filled with regret & longing, the shifting between hard and beautiful instrumentation. Not my favorite track by the band, but probably one of the better examples of their style. I like it.

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Deafheaven - Windows:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NClfLPFneHXcvHSkF64JK?si=696d1e1c40d847c6

Estimated Score: 60.093

I... don't know right now. A slow, methodical droning beat with a church sermon sandwiched between a drug deal that opens & closes the song. It's weird, dark, heavy, raw, intriguing, and I'm really not sure how to even process it. I think I'll say that I liked it and give it a very minor edge over the Clump of songs, but i wasn't prepared for anything about this track and there's really no guessing where it'd wind up after I had time to properly process it.

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Deafheaven - The Pecan Tree:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0whlO9oEAYISh4plID7lXa?si=63e26b3c21dd4647

Estimated Score: 58.33

Another song that serves as a good introduction to the band's style. It's pretty nice and I do like the bleakness & father issues that close out the track:

I am my father's son
I am no one
I cannot love
It's in my blood

But while I mostly enjoy it, I think it might be my least favorite track from the album. There's nothing really wrong with it, I'm just less into it.

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-and the next song is not part of the album on Spotify, but Genius lists it as being part of it & I want another song, so let's go one more:-

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Deafheaven - Punk Rock/Cody:,
https://open.spotify.com/track/7DqOHh26YDaq5DCIbMJiLQ?si=27d0feaae5e9494a

Estimated Score: 74.19

A good song to end the day on. It's.... well, honestly, "like other songs they've done, but I personally like it a bit more". We've got unexpected samples ("William Faulkners speech at the Nobel Banquet" is today's choice), some amazingly beautiful music after the speech, and painful lyrics:

Sad songs remind me of friends
And the way it is
I could leave it all
And I ask myself
Would you care at all?

Yes, this song is definitely what I was looking for when I decided to try another song. I do wish it didn't go so hard at the end, the last minute is a bit much, but I really enjoy the rest of the song enough that I'm not going to hold it against it.

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Neat album! The band is far more interesting than I gave them credit for in the past.