For me, a fairly long-time fan and at heart a pretty earnest person, Baroness‘ emotional palette of dogged determination, wistful longing, and bittersweet reflection forms a picture of a whole life. The album’s structure adds greatly to this effect. Moods vary within and between songs, and the album is bookended by a lilting, not-quite-mournful bit of melody and lyrics. It occurs in the intro; the dawn brings a little sunshine in the guitar, and it ends with an eerie synth stab, which breaks into the first proper track’s big, crunchy riff. In the outro, the sunshine has been reduced to a … Continue reading Review: Baroness – Stone