MASTODON Hushed & Grim ALBUM REVIEW

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This album is so good

Leviathan and Crack The Skye are my favorite albums from them, but thing is, they've already done that sound. I feel like Hushed and Grim is such a majestic and natural evolution from them, and they're definitely wearing their hearts on their sleeves while avoiding being like certain bands who spew the same sound over and over again. I can only wish that you can eventually appreciate it or at least hear what i hear. It's wonderful from my perspective. Being a double album, it takes a lot of listens to take it all in, but after my five or so runs through it all, i can definitely say this belongs right up there with both Leviathan and Crack The Skye.

With all mastodon albums I feel like it takes a couple listens before I really start to love it.

For me, It's their best album since CtS, and I hardly disagree about Skeleton of Splendor, one of the highlights of the album for me, but that's fine. BTW, I'm a NIИ fan too as you can see :D

To be quite honest, as someone who dug sand. They’ve given us quite a few solid albums and more than one great one

I personally loved the album but I completely understand and respect that you're not as big of fan of this album. I feel like this album is going to be split on either people enjoyed it or not.

This album is like their In the Court of the Crimson King. It's gonna be remembered that way.

Okay so update time. I’ve spun this album twice in a row and absolutely adored it, honestly their best work since Crack the Skye by a longshot. I understand where you’re coming from though, and I feel that this will end up being a polarizing double disk for a lot of people, given the length and level of ambition needed to keep said record engaging.

The album is great. There are so many amazing moments in Hushed and Grim, a very dark album for Mastodon.

This album is fantastic. I appreciate your effort at putting your thoughts into it. But I came our very happy with it.

The problem is Crack the Skye set the bar so high nothing can top it with Mastodon and prog in general it has to blow you away it’s all or nothing for me.

Great review! Earned my subscription! Even though my thoughts from the album as a whole differ from your’s, I felt this way with The Hunter and Emperor of Sand. At the beginning, I just didn’t jive with the album. But as the years past, and I keep listening to them, I appreciate them more, and actually rank both as too tier work, a la Blood Mountain. I think Hushed and Grim is just like that, or rather, will be like that. First listen is “rough”, but further passive listening will make the album grow on you

How many times have you listened to the album?

Damn I couldn’t disagree more with this review. This feels like a perfect culmination of all their styles over the years. This ones tied with crack the Skye and leviathan for me.

This album is Amazing....surpassed my expectations....the guitars are amazing....the little nuggets offered within the songs are bliss!

Hello, thank you for your review i can answer just today since the album arrived like 15 hrs ago here. I can't really sit and listen to the whole thing especially from the start because it just keeps losing my attention and doesn't emotionally move me. I think the second half has much more to offer so probably a better place to start with. Riff and solo wise this album seems to me like their weakest but the drums are amazing! Plus one of the songs just sounds like its from one of Brent's side projects. Honestly, EOS had an amazing solo at the end of Roots Remain that imho is better than anything we hear on h&g. This album makes me appreciate The Hunter more, because even tho it was at the time their weakest we were still able to find gems on it like Black Tongue that is one of my favs in their catalog, the title track, dry bone valley, the sparrow, curl of the burl - all really solid tracks. So that kinda answers the question if h&g is the new weakest. I thought pushing the tides is like an album opener that gives us a taste on how the album could be - couldn't be more mistaken, you could even say that it sounds like it isn't from h&g. Another like huge red flag is the lack of Scott Kelly song, ive heard him talk that it became a tradition for them to invite him and always have some song he can sing on and now first time after 8 albums they decide to not make anything for him? I see that a lot of people dont like OMRTS and i personally love a lot of it with like couple exceptions, so maybe i was blessed before and now others are :P

Just from hearing the snippet from the track you showed in the introduction, I liked what I was hearing from that particular one, from the drumming to the guitar work.

Haven't heard the new album yet, but judging based on their albums post Crack the Skye and your analysis in the review, it seems to me that Mastodon made this big shift on The Hunter into more radio friendly, almost hard rock territory and have essentially found a way to put Mastodons music in that little box musically - and haven't really taken themselves out of it since... Kinda sad, I've been a fan since 2001ish and the band and sound I fell in love with on Remission and Leviathan especially, seems to have just moved on from that sound completely. I'm all for innovation and experimentation, I just kinda wish that they had their fun with the radio stuff and then moved in another unpredictable direction instead of pretty much sticking to that sound that's been present on each album starting with The Hunter.

I like Sickle and Peace. Pain with an Anchor, Peace and Tranquility, More than I could Chew and Savage Lands. If I go back to the album is for those songs only