Album review: Wren – Black Rain Falls

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Album review: Wren – Black Rain Falls

Flowers Of Earth, the opening tune on London quartet Wren​’s new album, makes it pretty clear what the listener is in for throughout Black Rain Falls. Eight minutes of slow, crushing riffs, hoarse vocals that channel despair and fury in equal measure and suffocatingly tense atmospherics, this track sets out their dark materials in no uncertain terms.  If the spectre of Neurosis hangs heavily (in every sense) over proceedings, Wren certainly demo…