Gotta love Profound Lore. Fuoco Fatuo, which means "will-o'-the-wisp" in Italian, is a pretty aptly named band. Of course, "will-o'-the-wisp" refers to a ghostly light known to lead travelers off of safe paths and into a place of eventual death. Backwater sounds like one of those places; in this case, it would be the great unknown of the cosmos. Strangely psychedelic and perhaps predictably spacey, the album is a peek through the looking glass at the unexplainable horrors that await humans should they venture from this rock, with suffocating production over very solid funeral doom compositions conjuring a constant sense of dread and despair. It may become slightly long-winded and repetitive at certain spots, but it's a very well done record through and through. It stands to mention that though the compositions are par for the course in this style, the production and the atmosphere (along with an excellent vocal performance) really take things up a notch and provide Backwater with the strength it needs to pull off its concept.
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