Fragile Wings

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  Ryan's Top 10 Albums of 2025

  Ryan Anderson

  Thematic/lyrical content: trauma, longing, existentialism, fragility

  My first exposure to the music of Cave Sermon was through a 2024 year-end list that put me on to their previous work Divine Laughter. This absolutely blew me away and I spent all of January this year listening to it on repeat and it would have at least been top 3 of my 2024 album list had I discovered it earlier. It was much to my surprise then when Fragile Wings dropped unannounced as a surprise album back in April.

  The man behind Cave Sermon (yes, all instruments and production engineering was done by one person) has quite possibly the most unique compositional voice I've ever heard. Tonally quite different from its predecessor, Fragile Wings sees that voice pushed even further with a sense of brightness and vivaciousness that at first caught me a bit off guard.

  There's a certain jauntiness to parts of the record that juxtapose so dynamically with the more traditional metal textures. Cave Sermon's ability to maintain a consistent tone throughout with the amount of dynamism and layering of colors and ideas is nothing short of astounding.

  This could easily go higher on the list but because it took me a bit longer to appreciate the stylistic differences between this and the previous album, my personal emotional connection with the following two albums over the year was a touch higher. Revisiting this album to shore up my list has shown me that I certainly need to spend more time with it because something here is downright magical. Make no mistake, Fragile Wings is the work of a musical genius and here's hoping we get another surprise in 2026.

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  Guldet gemt i Afgrunden: 2025

  Afgrunden

  Australien. Post-black navne er lidt som kønssygdomme på Søpavillionen. Der er unendelig mange af dem og det er kun en promille som det er værd at dykke ned i! Fragile Wings er en del af den promille. Det er amibitiøst og progget og altid med kant.