Twelve years ago, San Francisco’s Deafheaven unleashed one of the most genre-evolving albums of its time in Sunbather. Whilst many would yearn for them to take Sunbather’s blueprint and remake the same record for the next 20 years, this isn’t the band to request a copy and paste from. In 2021, they gave us Infinite Granite a triumphant if not slightly divisive return, which saw them delve into the much lighter end of the now publicly coined ‘Blackgaze.’ The biggest question was whether Infinite Granite was a dalliance into progressing as artists or if this much lighter sound was the way forward for them now. Enter 2025’s Lonely People With Power, Deafheaven’s most complete and rounded record to date. Pulling in components from all that came before it, this is Deafheaven showing that they a...