Weight Of The World
Weight Of The World
The Weight Of The World is Sanguine Hum's second studio album and represents a shift in the songwriting and scope of our music.
If Diving Bell was the completion of the Songs For Days sessions, then The Weight Of The World is the inflection point that led to the band we are today.
The seven songs on this album are a diverse mix of songwriting and extended instrumentals that combine our love of electronica with intricate arrangements and the discipline of song form. These elements are probably best represented in the 15-minute title track, The Weight Of The World.
Writing and rehearsing the music for this album pushed us all to become better musicians; it challenged us to dig deeper into our technique and musicality to find the performances we eventually captured in the studio. It also earned us new fans, including Stuart Maconie, who featured The Weight Of The World on the Freakzone's Best Albums of 2013 list on BBC Radio 6.
“Even as its most complex, Sanguine Hum retains an approachability that steers these proceedings well away from any polyester-era excesses. In other words, The Weight of the World remains all proggy, but also all post-y — in the very smartest of ways.”