✦✦✧✧ This is an improvement over Sunn’s previous album, “Life Metal,” only insofar as there is a hint of an actual performance on a real instrument about 26 minutes into the album.

✦✦✧✧ You’re either already into Sunn O))), in which case nothing I say will matter, or you’re curious, in which case let me assure you: this is an isolated guitar riff reamplified, slowed down, and stretched to an hour… and almost nothing more.