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I am a big fan of the band Slint. If you don't know them, check out the album piderland (Tweez is also great, but Spiderland is a masterpiece). Somehow this album, "The For Carnation", got past me. Brian McMahon, of Slint created it, with help from others, many years after Slint stopped playing. Both Spiderland and this album feature mostly spoken vocals and create... a dream? an atmosphere? a headspace? a world of their own?
An almost immediate difference between the two is how The For Carnation plays in the lower registers of its sound. The chiming, sometimes crushing, guitars are mostly absent. Instead there is bass, organ, drums with a slightly jazzy feel, and narative. It feels like watching a great movie. This is definitely one to listen through from start to end and let it develop.
I dont have the words I want to make this out as what it is... anything I say would not do it justice. Even the comparison to Slint is unfair: this stands on its own as a truly great work of art. The texture is dark and brooding. There is menace behind things, creeping dread... that never quite turns into full on terror. This is a slow, deep, subtle album. I would not call it heavy (at least not in volume... it is very intense though).
This one isn't about individual tracks so much. Really, listen to the full album in one sitting. I do find that I really love track 4, "Snoother", by the time I get to it... but I think that is because it is a tonal release from the darkness that comes before it and as such makes the most sense in context with the other tracks.