Outliers // 2018

Jonathan Adams
Best of 2018, Lists!
You’ve seen it. You’ve debated it. You’ve cried over it. But what’s done is done: Our list of the best albums of the year is behind us, and there is much rejoicing. But what about the albums we loved that didn’t make the final cut?

Holy Roar Records Files Pt. 5 – The Tidal Sleep’s Be Water

Matt MacLennan
Listen To This!
"Post" genres tend to get a lot of play around these parts. Post-hardcore and post-metal are broad stroke genres for a lot of bands that we love here at Heavy Blog; we love gorgeous sounds and carefully crafted tear jerks, that's for sure. The "post" tag does seem a bit surplus to requirements however. Are we at the stage where we have post-prog, post-deathcore yet? I dunno. That's a question for another writer to attack. What we do have right here is the self proclaimed post-everything band The Tidal Sleep and their earnest, emotional brand of hardcore. Released on Holy Roar Records in the UK (duh), Be Water is a benchmark record for "post" fans to gush over. Yes, even I, the gore obsessed cretin can see the beauty in this art form.