#3281 Mutual Benefit - Thunder Follows the Light

Teeters just on the edge of too much, all that indie crooning, layers and layers, that Bon Iver sheen, that Arcade Fire swoon, all that Sufjan crooning, all that soundtracky plucking about, with just a hint of Microphone grasping. But it's the whole-album listen that elevates - this is more than songs to someone. Those hints, relentless, of weather and light and sound and enduring, culminating in that hammerdrop last track. Any album that starts with Written in Lighting and ends with Thunder Follows ---- that's worth something 4/5