After two excellent full lengths, the Swedish band The Moth Gatherer come back, always under the aegis of Agonia Records, with this two tracks ep entitled The Comfortable Low. Alex Stjernfeldt and Victor Wegeborn confirm once again their ability to offer a form of post-metal in which the sludge doom pulses are integrated to perfection with the melodic and melancholic component that, however, in this case overhangs with its frightening evocative potential the most angry and claustrophobic parts. If This Providence Of Bones, with the vocal contribution of a monument of hardcore punk like Dennis Lyxzén (Refused), immediately appears to be a track of above-average quality, the next Still Life Slumbers Here turns out to be one of the most dramatic and engaging songs heard in recent times (here ours are helped by Fred Burman of Satan Takes A Holiday) for a total turnover reduced in terms of minutes (less than a quarter of an hour) but huge for the compositional talent fielded by The Moth Gatherer. The Comfortable Low, therefore, has only one defect, that of being a short ep because to listen to music so touching and of such thickness you can never have enough. Needless to say, all this calls for a next full length that, with such premises, could be the ultimate masterpiece of the Swedish band, making the wait spasmodic.

2017 – Agonia Records