Louisville’s Young Widows summon a pummeling — if not particularly tuneful — menace on their third full-length. Most of the album’s nine tracks follow a similar sonic blueprint — grimy guitars smeared across lumbering rhythms, vocals intoned through what sounds like clenched teeth. In other words, the band aims for a specific mood — in this case, creeping dread — and sustains it splendidly, even if the consistency comes at the expense of any real melodies. The same lack of hooks, coupled with a monochromatic sonic palette, gives Lightness’tracks a same-y quality that’s seemingly by design; it’s an album clearly designed to be greater than the sum of its parts. Lightnessis filled with songs whose structures often remain inscrutable even after several listens, but their cumulative effect is a tense, evocative atmosphere that echoes long after its climactic final stretch peters out.
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