The third album from this band from Sweden.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
Three guests added bass, keyboards and backing vocals.
I am continuing to explore this band. Their debut EP and then debut album made a pretty big impression on me thirty-two years ago. Then I forgot the whole band as I moved to a new country and became more into progressive rock than metal. But I have returned to the band now to review their albums.
The three quarters of an hour long Discouraged Ones is a total break with their past as a death/doom metal band. The music here is more like gloomy indie rock.
The band is here doing the same journey as Anathema also did at the same time as Katatonia underwent their journey of transformation.
Most of the guitar sound is still rooted in the sound on their first two albums. That means a death/doom metal guitar sound underpinning the dark, gloomy indie alt-rock on this album.
That means there are still some similarities between this album and their first two albums.
The vocals are clean vocals and pretty good.
The music is pretty good. This after overcoming the shock this sudden break with the past on this album. There are indeed some good stuff here and some decent stuff. This is an interesting album, indeed.
2.5 points
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