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Like a strange and jarring soundtrack to a movie we’ve never seen, the Spanish avant-noise/post-metal trio’s latest is as sprawling and dense as it is intentionally disjointed. But cohesion isn’t really an issue here, nor should it be the record jumps erratically from doom metal to free jazz to ambient guitarscapes that resemble those of their labelmates Earth, but without the creeping repetition.
Though Amanecer doesn’t reveal itself fully on any one track, the overall scope finally snakes its way to realization on the final track, Parte II: Apogeum, which revisits the doom of the album’s beginning, infused with a pulsating and crazed energy that is equal parts summation and grand exit.