Another Language (album)

According to a press release published by Suicide Squeeze Records, the album was recorded after a "prolonged vacuous dark period that threatened to break both the band and the members themselves".{{cite web|title=This Will Destroy You Details New Album, Shares "Dustism"|url=http://suicidesqueezerecords.tumblr.com/post/89673470146/this-will-destroy-you-details-new-album-shares|website=Tumblr|publisher=Suicide Squeeze Records|accessdate=August 18, 2014|date=June 23, 2014}} In February 2013, one of the band's guitarists, Jeremy Galindo, said that the band had started writing the next studio album.{{cite web|last1=P|first1=Gilbert|title=Interview: Jeremy Galindo, This Will Destroy You|url=http://echoesanddust.com/2013/02/interview-jeremy-galindo-this-will-destroy-you/|website=Echoesanddust.com|accessdate=August 18, 2014|date=February 2013}} Nine months later, the band said they were halfway done with the recording process.{{cite web|last1=Helbig|first1=Robert|title=Interview: This Will Destroy You – The new album is halfway there|url=http://nbhap.com/music/interviews/this-will-destroy-you/|website=Nothing But Hope And Passion|accessdate=August 18, 2014|date=November 25, 2013}} In February 2014, the band's bassist

Donovan Jones reported that they were still working on the album.{{cite web|title=Interview: Donovan of This Will Destroy You|url=http://coreymcd22.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/interview-donovan-of-this-will-destroy-you/|website=Coreymcd22.wordpress.com|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 18, 2014|date=February 21, 2014}}

This is the last album to feature Donovan Jones and Alex Bhore after they left the band in late May 2016.

According to the band, Another Language's sound is "more upbeat and rhythmic" than their previous work. They also described the sound of the album with the genre "doomgaze", a portmanteau of the words doom metal and shoegaze.{{cite web|last1=Yung|first1=Phillip|title=Take a peak into This Will Destroy You's upcoming album 'Another Language'|url=http://www.earmilk.com/2014/08/13/take-a-peak-into-this-will-destroy-yous-upcoming-album-another-language/|website=Earmilk|accessdate=August 18, 2014|date=August 13, 2014}} Fred Thomas of AllMusic described the sound of the album as "far heavier" than the "tense, brooding post-rock" on the band's previous work. He characterized the sound of Another Language as "cinematic" post-rock influenced by doom metal and shoegaze, and called the production "more intricate" and "otherworldly". Thomas also praised the band's "always airtight sense of dynamics".{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0002696482|label=Another Language|accessdate=September 13, 2014}} Matt Bobkin of Exclaim! labeled the album's sound as post-rock, but acknowledged that the band seemed to be moving away from that sound.{{cite web|last1=Bobkin|first1=Matt|title=This Will Destroy You - Another Language|url=http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/PopAndRock/this_will_destroy_you-another_language|website=Exclaim!|accessdate=September 13, 2014|date=September 12, 2014}}

The album's first track, "New Topia", "grows from laid-back rhythms and gentle bell sounds into a slow, pounding wail". Thomas found that the production of the track was influenced by drone metal, and the other sounds "blur into a hungry wash of delay and toothy noise". "Dustism" was characterized by "dubbed-out drums and high-pitched feedback synths", while "Invitation" features "rolling, distorted rhythms and faraway guitar sounds". "Serpent Mound" features an ambient opening followed by "face-melting melodic guitar lines with a solid wave of fuzzy, distorted sound and crashing drums", described by Bobkin as "doomgaze". The album's closing track, "God's Teeth", features ambient sounds that were compared to the works of Brian Eno and William Basinski.

The release and album artwork of the album were announced on June 23, 2014, with the release of the first single, "Dustism".{{cite web|last1=Bowe|first1=Miles|title=This Will Destroy You – "Dustism" (Stereogum Premiere)|url=http://www.stereogum.com/1688222/this-will-destroy-you-dustism-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/|website=Stereogum|accessdate=August 18, 2014|date=June 23, 2014}} The album's second single, "Invitation", was released on August 11.{{cite web|title=Listen to a Song from This Will Destroy You's (Obviously) Epic New Album|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-will-destroy-you-invitation-song-premiere/|website=Noisey|publisher=Vice|access-date=August 18, 2014|date=August 11, 2014}} Another Language was made available for streaming through Pitchfork Media on September 8. A video to accompany the album was directed by Sean Miller and Christopher Royal King.{{cite web|title=Our new album Another Language is...|url=https://www.facebook.com/thiswilldestroyyou/posts/731899570198331|website=This Will Destroy You|publisher=Facebook|accessdate=September 8, 2014|date=September 8, 2014}}{{cite web|title=This Will Destroy You: Another Language|url=http://pitchfork.com/advance/530-another-language/|website=Pitchfork Media|accessdate=September 8, 2014|date=September 8, 2014}}

Prior to the album release, This Will Destroy You announced a worldwide concert and festival tour, with support from Future Death and Silent Land Time Machine in North America, and Thought Forms and Lymbyc Systym in Europe.{{cite web|title=THIS WILL DESTROY YOU European tour 2014|url=http://www.littlebig-agency.net/blog/this-will-destroy-you-announces-european-tour/|website=LittleBig Agency|accessdate=September 8, 2014|date=May 29, 2014}}

{{Album ratings

| MC = 72/100{{cite web|title=Reviews for Another Language by This Will Destroy You|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/another-language/this-will-destroy-you|website=Metacritic|accessdate=October 9, 2014}}

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev2 = Alternative Press

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite journal|title=none|journal=Alternative Press|date=October 2014|page=101|quote=Another Language is a step back in the right direction, engulfing the listener with effortless subtlety.}}

| rev3 = Consequence of Sound

| rev3Score = B−{{cite web|last1=Corcoran|first1=Nina|title=This Will Destroy You – Another Language|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/album-review-this-will-destroy-you-another-language/|website=Consequence of Sound|accessdate=September 21, 2014|date=September 19, 2014}}

| rev4 = Exclaim!

| rev4Score = 7/10

| rev5 = Kerrang!

| rev5Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite journal|title=none|journal=Kerrang!|date=September 20, 2014|page=53|quote=All the standard atmospheric touchstones get brushed aside here in favour of a deeper, more meditative experience.}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork Media

| rev6Score = 7.2/10{{cite web|last1=Stosuy|first1=Brandon|title=This Will Destroy You: Another Language|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19619-this-will-destroy-you-another-language/|website=Pitchfork Media|accessdate=September 20, 2014|date=September 18, 2014}}

| rev7 = PopMatters

| rev7Score = 6/10{{cite web|last1=Paul|first1=John|title=This Will Destroy You: Another Language|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/185959-this-will-destroy-you-another-language/|website=PopMatters|accessdate=October 9, 2014|date=October 8, 2014}}

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Another Language received positive reviews upon its release. According to Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album held a score of 72/100 based on nine reviews—indicating "generally favorable reviews"—following its release. Fred Thomas of AllMusic, who gave the album four out of five stars, complimented the band's "more intricate, otherworldly production methods" and ability to write intense songs that are not "overly long". He praised the closing track of the album, "God's Teeth", calling it "gorgeous and haunting". Matt Bobkin of Exclaim!, who gave the album seven out of ten points, criticized the album for its long ambient segments in the middle of the record, but praised the following tracks, "Invitation" and "Memory Loss".

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;This Will Destroy You

• Jeremy Galindo – guitar
• Donovan Jones – bass
• Chris King – guitar
• Alex Bhore – drums

; Additional musicians

• Jon Slade - strings

Credits adapted from Holodeck Records and Pitchfork Media.{{cite web|title=This Will Destroy You - Another Language |url=http://holodeckrecords.com/this-will-destroy-you-another-language-hd028/ |website=Holodeckrecords.com |accessdate=August 18, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082400/http://holodeckrecords.com/this-will-destroy-you-another-language-hd028/ |archivedate=August 19, 2014 }}

• Alex Bhore - recording
• John Congleton - production, recording, mixing
• Alan Douches - mastering
• Jeremy Galindo - mixing
• Christopher King - recording, mixing
• Land - art

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