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Drumming is very solid, bass is loud and super-chunky, guitars are insistent. A little lull at the end of the third minute allows for a second burst into full frontal brutality--this time with the right channel guitar going rogue and freaky. Awesome stuff! Gets the adrenaline pumping to hear the band firing on all cylinders again.

This is different! And awesome! A MONO torch song! It's gorgeous if a little two-dimensional. After a brief pregnant pause, the full band jumps in with great force and a great weave with synth strings? What ensues is beautiful, insistent, emotional, and powerful. At the drums and bass start a constant quick-pulse just before a break in which the two guitars continue playing off of each other in their own repetitive styles.

Bass and snare rolls reenter in the second half of the seventh minute and then kick drum. At everything gets loosed but this is weak until the tremolos really speed up and the cymbal crashes get going. Don't like the drums' backing off as the guitars continue screaming.

Nice weave that stays mellow until the three minute mark when bass drum and bowed instrument check in. At the raunchy electric guitar tremolos show up as cymbals and orchestral sounds join. Never reaches fast speed or frenetic playing, but effectively conveys a mood. Then things get quiet and more sparse again for thirty seconds before swaths of "singular" strings begin swooping in and around the music to the most gorgeous, emotional effect.

At the beat intensifies as the drums and bass begin pounding and crashing while the musical soundscape becomes awash in the thickness of a constant kind of tremolo. Beginning at the end of the eighth minute Taka's full-chord tremolos with keyboard mirror bombard and bathe us until the song's Berlin School sequenced demise in the final 30 seconds.

Definitely a top three song; probably my favorite song on the album. It's so MONO but it's unlike anything they've ever done before. Very pretty, very emotional. At the one minute mark a second guitar enters playing some echoed and spaciously placed notes. In the third minute the second guitarist doubles his slow pace as bass and cymbals and then full drums and "orchestration" join in.

Not very complex music but all threads are woven into a nice tapestry. Around things break down to the original voice and guitar foundation before low-end guitar tremolo and orchestral strings' rising and falling chord progression ensues. Drums re-emerge at the five minute mark. Searing electric guitar flames in at to add his emotional input.

At drummer signals "it's time to get real" as everybody seems to amp up their intensity especially the drums--which erupt into full freak out mode at And different! And woven together with some reverb and other effects and that's it!

Add Wurlitzer-like organ in the second minute. The melodies and harmonic structure here is so cool, so familiar. Drum kit enters at Now that is cool! Taka, Tamaki and Yoda for your metamorphosis. From the beginning "Ashes In The Snow" quiet, repetitive but deep heavy guitar fuzz phrases knock your heart really. Magnificent expectation for their vivid sound vision can be heard at first.

Not anything special nor eccentric around you indeed, but why cannot you lean forward? Mysterious melodic confusions would be continued via "Burial At Sea" followed by "Silent Fright, Sleeping Dawn" drenched with downtempo sorrowful stream through their instrumental fragility.

Via their opuses you could not feel of immortality but continuous empty dream. Another tragedy is "Follow The Map" the shortest track filled with simple but meaningful melodic phrases. One of highlights "The Battle To Heaven" sounds kinda pain for getting hopeful future despite of distant painful past And the epilogue "Everlasting Light" should be the heartwarming eternity, flooded with noisy but optimistic melody brilliance and majority.

Such a theatrical creation would let you know a wild snow shower once in your rock life. Not innovative but fascinating really. The album starts out with a short introduction called "God Bless" which begins the album with layered synths and a warbling brass sound. This flows into the next track "After You Comes the Flood". The beginning is a soft guitar and a quick building of a fuzzy effect, a sudden stop, and starting again with a sudden intensity with a melodic riff shared between guitars and a thumping percussion.

Later there is another sudden lift in the intensity, continuing the development around the main riff. More layers create more sound as it continues, and also more emotional power. The next track is "Breathe" and it actually features vocals from Tamaki for the first time ever.

The track is soft, yet dark as electronics establish the foundation in a slow manner. Tamaki's soft and airy vocals feel so natural to the music and you wonder why she hasn't sung on any of their albums before. The signature post-rock guitar begins to pluck out pieces of the melody carried by the vocals. An echo effect from the guitars and soft mellotron style synths usher in a slow rhythmic pattern as this beautiful track continues.

The title track "Nowhere, Now Here" follows with the first lengthy track at over 10 minutes. This one starts out taking it's time, developing slowly with a solo guitar and later adding layers one by one, including more brass. At 3 minutes, everything falls to silence, and then a sudden eruption of music as the full band kicks into gear, with a stirring drum line and guitars supported by nice keys. At around 6 minutes, after the percussion drops out, it returns, this time building intensity even more and coaxing more power from the guitars.

Excellent and beautiful track. This is the style of emotional and orchestral post rock the band is so famous for, and it reels me into their music every time. Again, this is another lovely track, but staying soft this time, until you get to the mark, where there is a sudden dark, heaviness added turning this into a cinematic piece.

A slow beat comes in. It flows along nice for a while before a sudden burst of emotion. Again, there is that dark cinematic and sweeping feel. The original theme comes back with more string effects before the burst happens again. At 5 minutes, things get darker and heavier with more guitar added. Later, even another stage of loudness happens almost smothering everything else, but the beautiful theme still persists and it just climaxes into one of the emotional and expansive post-rock tracks ever.

This track is a pure post-rock masterpiece! The piano and the electronics in this album is exactly the dimension needed in Mono's music to make it perfect and fits right into the band's sound and only adds to the entire sound. The sound builds as the synths drive the crescendo, and eventually percussion is added in. The percussion drops off further into the track, and again the sound starts to build, this time pushed on with the guitars, and some orchestral sounding string effects.

The percussion starts again, and together everything pushes to another expansive climax. The heavy emotion of the music can build just as much emotion in your own soul as you listen. The atmospheric "Funeral Song" follows with the synths creating brass-like sounds that play long sustained notes.