When darkness becomes fathomless enough, one can barely resist the pull to fall in. That is the overwhelming atmosphere around the superb second album from English doom stalwarts Gévaudan. A sprawling concept record reckoning on depression through a narrative of grim Eldritch Horror, it draws listeners towards the titular central shadow before spiralling out into the strange lightlessness of the void. There is a melancholic beauty there, and they mine every ounce. The decision to deliver a single 43-minute track is intriguing. There are obvious tonal and musical shifts here, which could have signalled splits between ‘songs’: the break from Candlemass-style epic doom into something far proggier and more ambient around the 13-minute mark, for instance, or the swerve...