Not Unlike The Waves.

The intro is strange, nostalgic and lost.
I like the mixture of clean emotional arpeggio (with added chorus and reverb) and leading riffs;
the arpeggio is deep from the heart, the riff and bass guide the music to be more than just a repeating yesterday.
There's a significant tension in the arpeggio timing which made it depressive and hopeful at the same time.
The key is mastering! The repeating arpeggio is the slave here and encourage the listener to follow it
(Depressive repeating arpeggios psychology rule: If you want the audience to pay more attention to the arpeggio path, make it unattainable!)

After the outlaw drum fill, there's an acoustic part which continues the intro feeling
and then the clean vocals describes all is needed there (the vocal melodies I mean, not the lyrics)
then there's an effective shout... to the solo and repeat all once again.
(The intro arpeggio and riff mixture, which becomes song main part as it move forward,
is so simple and so emotional that the listener want it to be repeated more and more)

Not Unlike The Waves is my favorite song On Agalloch's Ashes Against The Grain .

This question is impossible to answer, the album is perfect.

Fortress2 is jus 2 gud of an instrumental and gives u a lot of feeling...its beautiful n a cut above d rest...but d ones dat cme close are 'not unlike' and 'fire above'...reeli gud album tho i wish dey had cut out 'white mountain' and 'fortress3'...dey r no-nothing songs..oder dan almost perfect

Yeah is really difficult to choice a song on this album, but i don't know why "Fire Above, Ice Below" sound so fucking perfect in my ears, and make me go in ecstasy

Written by thev_manutop on 28.07.2011 at 09:38

Fortress2 is jus 2 gud of an instrumental and gives u a lot of feeling...its beautiful n a cut above d rest...but d ones dat cme close are 'not unlike' and 'fire above'...reeli gud album tho i wish dey had cut out 'white mountain' and 'fortress3'...dey r no-nothing songs..oder dan almost perfect

"Fortress 2" isn't an instrumental...

Written by Guest on 01.10.2011 at 17:06

Written by thev_manutop on 28.07.2011 at 09:38

Fortress2 is jus 2 gud of an instrumental and gives u a lot of feeling...its beautiful n a cut above d rest...but d ones dat cme close are 'not unlike' and 'fire above'...reeli gud album tho i wish dey had cut out 'white mountain' and 'fortress3'...dey r no-nothing songs..oder dan almost perfect

"Fortress 2" isn't an instrumental...

Well yeah i mean the instrumental part...i mean 80percent of it IS...

Not Unlike The Waves is a very catchy song and is perfect for a live format. I've seen videos of Agalloch fans getting pumped and banging their heads at concerts since they're so into the song. It gets me pumped up whenever singing it in my car.

Falling Snow's intro riff is the best of all

I am so happy to see that Not Unlike the Waves is first. It has always been my favourite song of theirs and this is always the first song I recommend to people when they wish to listen to Agalloch for the first time. Nothing beats this masterpiece!

Written by Ellrohir on 07.09.2012 at 19:59

Falling Snow's intro riff is the best of all

It also has the best last 3 minutes of all.

An amazing album from an even more amazing band. i would choose the whole our fortress is burning trilogy but since i cant i go with bloodbirds

I also love the ending to the song "Limbs", it's amazingly powerful and transitions nicely into "Falling Snow".

While i tend to listen to albums as a whole, Not Unlike The Waves definitely stands out in my opinion