+ ещё хотел сказать, что согласен, хипстеры на RYM прутся от американского блэка типо Weakling или Wolves in the Throne Room, где ставка сделана на атмосферу. Drudkh как и Agalloch собственно в этой же теме, видимо поэтому все хавают :)

читаю твои рецензии, и натыкаясь на довольно нестандартные для русского человека, выучившего ин.яз, выражения, не могу не спросить. как настолько хорошо можно выучить английский? чувствуется образование и начитанность

+ про канороус квинтет интересная рецензия. в своё время когда увлекался мдм-ом этот альбом мне очень понравился.
вечной классикой жанра считаю The Gallery, но такие вот андеграундовые альбомы вроде того, и тех же Unanimated (Ancient God of Evil) явно выделяются из серой массы всяких амон амартов и околометалкора :)

Great review for Year of No Light's Nord album; re-listened to it on a whim the other day and many points that you made just clicked; lot of little details that add to the total presentation. I dislike the popular representatives of atmosludge e.g. Isis because they meander too much while Neurosis is repetitive at excruciating lengths. You should try Rosetta's first two albums as they bring about a certain sense of urgency to their cinematic approach which really vitalizes their spacey sound.

Haha I'm no stranger to the works of postomodernist novelists like Pynchon, Joyce, and Wallace so I'm used to reading walls of text.

It's like you said, Year of No Light actually has (doom) riffs going on along with the usual crescendo-like progressions so their compositions are more varied, thus standing out among the crowd.

This is my favorite Rosetta song from them, representing everything about them that I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlynrC5g9A

Chrnonoclast by Buried Inside (from Canada) also had alot of potential to be great, but they seemed content to ride out one (unresolved) idea for far too long, an unsuccessful attempt at leitmotif technique.

Wallace is a more "accessible" and meta author than Pynchon, no less sprawling, equally imaginative, perhaps with a lighter (though still darkly comic) tone. Infinite Jest is certainly dense, but is surprisingly readable.

Not sure what goodreads is, guessing it's basically the rym for books? I graduated with a bachelor's in English (yeah, I know) and am constantly reading to keep my mind sharp; I usually check out the literature forum on gamefaqs.com for recommendations as well as perusing the local bookstore.

I too try to maintain some semblance of my academic background in my writing (depending on what sort of effect that I wish to present upon the reader) though I'm too lazy to re-do my reviews.. God, the writing of our younger selves certainly can seem amateurish in retrospect.

Just saw the film adaptation of Inherent Vice btw. My rating is tentative right now as I need to rewatch it, but I noticed a few things: 1) the dialogue is pretty much verbatim from the novel 2)this is like a drier version of The Big Lebowski 3) the long shots are gorgeous but the action is sparse 3) 4) the stoner influence is understated but whose haze is omnipresent, especially during the transitions that evoke memory loss and disorientation

Just finished Against the Day recently (took me ~5 months in between work, alot longer than expected). I think I have a firmer grasp on Pynchon's prose style i.e. he tends to utilize many tangential descriptions on otherwise "ordinary" background settings and (very) minor characters, detailing "outside" perspectives with micro-narratives to color their worlds. This approach certainly lends an off-putting impression onto "first readers," as well as the generally uninitiated, as "nonsensical" run-on sentences, but I find its execution to be an enriching experience.

Are you familiar with the works of William Gaddis? I keep seeing his name being mentioned with the other postmodernists.

Never heard of Endo (only Japanese author I know of is the hipster-friendly Murakami lol), but Silence sounds like something I can really sink my teeth into, thematically similar to some of Dostoevsky's works based on your informative review.

That one section, where you discuss the notion that a vacillating faith that nonetheless furthers an ongoing religiosity, is especially significant in these sorts of text.