18 - Cult of Luna: Somewhere Along The Highway (Earache Records, 2006)
I couldn't stop listening to this record when I got it. I'd always liked COL but they'd always played second tier to bands like Neurosis and Isis but then the released SATH and they stepped away from the path they'd created with albums such as Salvation and The Beyond into a much rawer sound.
Apparently recorded in a cottage in the middle of Sweden somewhere it retains COL's amazing ability to build a track up from nothing to a mass of sound whilst making it somehow more gentle and personal than their previous works.
Stand out tracks here are 'Finland' and 'Dim', but really the whole album is their watershed moment!
www.cultofluna.com
James
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