Foundations of burden

"In "Worlds Apart", Campbell sings "Where lays our heart of hearts defined/ My darkness and your light, still yet remain entwined." This mixture of light and dark seems to be the crux of Pallbearer, a group who make sadness seem uplifting, darkness seem bright, and songs about mortality seem life-giving. The final words of the album are: "We're always shifting/ And always becoming." The sentiment comes during the stampeding moments of the heady, muscular "Vanished", and that endless becoming is fitting on both an emotional and conceptual level. Foundations finds a band firing on all cylinders, and surpassing what seemed like a watermark for the genre. As obsessed as Pallbearer is with endings, the music here is timeless".

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"Her er skrald på fra begyndelsen af hvert nummer, ligesom forsanger Brett Campbells Ozzy Osbourne-klingende vokal heller ikke drager på de store eventyr undervejs. Det skaber en skygge af monotoni i albumregi, men Pallbearer har en graciøsitet og en ynde over sig".

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