The title already gives a bit of what you can expect from Deafheaven's fourth album. Just when you think this California metal group is starting to sound mild and even a bit ordinary, the switch is on. The drums start to rattle, guitar amps open and singer George Clarke starts to scream like a Norwegian demon. We know Deafheaven especially from their acclaimed second album (2013). The shoegaze and
… post rock influences with which they permeated their black metal on this, get even more attention on Ordinary Corrupt Human Love. This happens in songs of around 10 minutes in which braids of echoing guitars slowly build up, until the quintet no longer seems to be able to hold back and the musical violence erupts. Special is the almost tender ballad Night People on which Clarke keeps his roar in and lovingly duets with . Diversity and the organic way in which they mix styles into a dark whole; it graces Deafheaven. (MR)more
