Deafhaven w/Drab Majesty and Uniform

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Deafhaven

There aren’t many modern metal records these days that cross over—as a general rule metal is a pretty isolated genre, uninterested in winning over the non-converted. A rare exception arrived in 2013, though, when the San Francisco ensemble Deafhaven released their sophomore album Sunbather, one of the most acclaimed metal albums of the last decade. The record is sprawling and beautiful, seeped in the crash-and-bang dynamics of post-rock. No doubt in part because of that crossover appeal, the record placed high on year-end lists from dozens of media sources, including Spin, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and even NPR, an outlet not usually known for its metal coverage. Lest anybody think that Sunbather was a fluke, they followed it in 2015 with an even bigger, more sprawling third album, New Bermuda. Their similarly excellent latest album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, arrived this month.