I was afraid, especially at night, of hearing the bleak sound of men's footsteps, men who knew that Mama had no protector.
But from inside the building came the bleak sound of workers knocking out broken windows, and Mr. Grosu felt compelled to add this: "Almost all of us think it is bad and evil, what happened here".
He argued that the album is more of a progressive metal record because of its intricately performed music and bleak sound.
Still, the bleaker sounds on this album suit Oldham better, with Heart's Arms' sad, ghostly drone showing how less can say more.
But on his new album Tragedy Of Truth, Bradley sews seeds of hope under even the bleakest sounds crawling out of his studio.
There's something about the downstairs space at the Black Cat that should mesh perfectly with the bleak pop sounds that will emanate from its speakers.
What follows is a detailed tableau of recrimination, remorse, spite and self-pity, sometimes evoked without recourse to words – as in "High and Lonesome", a bleak found-sound fragment of thunder, rain, footsteps, traffic and distant tolling bell that's like a modern-day representation of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".
Three of the band's releases feature acoustic music, and while the band initially kept these releases separate, Alice in Chains' self-titled album combined the styles to form "a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers".
But although it sounds bleak, this dramatic landscape has a barren beauty.
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Sounds bleak, but Stevens and Berrios both assure that it's really not as bad as it sounds.
