Even though it has always been a characteristic, no matter how subtle within their music, most people in metal usually don't associate "melodic" with Neurosis. Surely a band like Neurosis won't cater to everyone, but when Neurosis incorporate melody and ambience, it becomes an amalgam that leaves one speechless. So when word got around that the new Neurosis album was going to take a more ambient, mellower, and "different" approach than their past efforts of introverted angst taken to the largest scale, it was with great pleasure that this continued growth of one of metal's most intriguing entities was inevitably going to blossom. Possessing the defying musical trauma that The Swans carried on The Great Annihilator, A Sun That Never Sets takes that colossal Neurosis approach and simplifies it a bit while still maintaining that elusive effectiveness that Neurosis can only portray. The melodic and musical structure on this album is monolithic to say the least. Tracks like 'The Tide', ''From The Hill', and 'Crawl Back In' display a soothing pent-up emotional fervor, very melodic and subtly powerful on a grand scale while 'Stones From The Sky' and especially 'Failing Unknown' display an epic sense of drama. All in all, it's a collection of mind-numbing riffs, beautiful string arrangements as well as a more controlled sense of vocal execution, like a soundtrack to a force that constantly feeds off the energy of the universe. It's an album from which personal, emotional feelings are revealed naturally while simultaneously making you feel invincible and frail. If Times Of Grace, its predecessor, was the album where everything that you love would eventually come to an end, A Sun That Never Sets is the aftermath, the coping and the longing. With Neurosis, it's not about showmanship because A Sun That Never Sets is an album of natural and pure beauty, a lethal innocence, infinity through simplicity.