{"id":226353,"date":"2025-12-08T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/?p=226353"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:00:14","slug":"clouds-desprins-things-you-might-have-missed-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/clouds-desprins-things-you-might-have-missed-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds – Desprins [Things You Might Have Missed 2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Those of you who have been paying close attention may remember that Clouds<\/strong>’ 2021 album Desp\u01cer\u021bire<\/em> was the subject of my very first review<\/a> here at AMG; a review that in my n00bish na\u00efvet\u00e9, I appended with a 4.5<\/strong>. I don’t regret it, but will admit the name Clouds<\/strong> had faded a little in my mind before a sudden and apparently unannounced drop of Desprins<\/em> back in January caused all the sweet sadness to come flooding back. The distinctive shroud of flute-accented darkness fell instantly. At once I was transported back to that November evening I first listened to Clouds<\/strong>, gazing out of the train window at the blackness beyond.<\/p>\n

Desprins <\/em>is transportive not simply as a continuation of Clouds<\/strong>’ endless journey of despair, but as an extension of it. Heavier and simultaneously more reflective than Desp\u01cer\u021bire, <\/em>it channels the group’s black, choked funeral doom through a spacious synth veil recalling their earliest material, but now more confidently and atmospherically woven. The duality between the heaviest and gentlest aspects\u2014a tension Clouds<\/strong> have always experimented with\u2014is sharpened. The grittiness of the metal, the plaintiveness of the singing, and airiness of the acoustic instruments are more stark, but in a way that balances the musical and emotional waves of tension and release. In a limbo of atmosphere, Daniel Neagoe tells us in solemn whispers what he elsewhere expresses with pained cries and guttural roars; heavy riffs lift and drums slip away at bar’s end for a piano to take the lead; quiet softly crescendoes back on the ascent of a flute: all flow and fade inevitably out of each other.<\/p>\n