![]() ![]() What's surprising here is how well it all works. They've hinted at these new avenues, and even tentatively explored a few, on their first two LPs, Blue Record and Red Album. ![]() The sound itself is the biggest shift, though it shouldn't come as a total surprise. There are a number of new elements to Baroness in 2012- frontman John Baizley is the father of a young daughter and lives in Philadelphia instead of Savannah after the recording of Yellow & Green, Matt Maggioni came on board as the group's new bassist (which means longtime member Summer Welch is no more). The quartet's new 18-song, 75-minute double album offers a broad, rich expanse of pretty, psychedelic, occasionally heavy, mostly straight-up rock that veers easily into pop, post-rock, and lulling ambient washes. That said, I doubt anyone listening then could've predicted Yellow & Green. Even in 2003, it wasn't your typical Southern sludge swamp. When they started making burly, progressive sludge almost 10 years ago, Baroness weren't teenagers: They were grown men with a refined, nuanced approach to heavy metal.
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