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Our Raw Heart is the eighth studio album by American doom metal band YOB. It was released June 8, 2018, by Relapse Records.[8]

Our Raw Heart
Studio album by YOB
Released	June 8, 2018 (2018-06-08)
Recorded	2017–2018
Genre	Doom metal[1] stoner metal post-metal
Length	73:16
Label	Relapse Records
YOB chronology
Clearing the Path to Ascend (2014) Our Raw Heart (2018)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	82/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Exclaim!	(8/10)[3]
Metal Injection	(9/10)[4]
Metal Storm	(8.0/10)[5]
Pitchfork	(8/10)[6]
Rolling Stone	(3.5/5)[7]

Production

The album was produced by Billy Barnett.[9] The album was inspired by a serious health issue suffered by singer and guitarist Mike Scheidt in early 2017,[6] and most of the music was written while he was in a hospital bed.[7] The album has been described as a cross between the band's two previous studio albums, mixing the aggression of Atma (2011) with the psychedelic experimentation of Clearing the Path to Ascend (2014).[6] AllMusic classified it as a doom metal album "possessed of hope", with elements of sludge metal, stoner metal and post-metal psychedelia.[1]

Critical reception

Our Raw Heart was well received by critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 82 based on 10 reviews.[2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 83 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 9 reviews.[10]

Metal Injection called the album "engaging and revealing, immediately appealing but with subtle nuances and layers that only become apparent after subsequent listens. It's a powerful and cathartic release,"[4] while Rolling Stone praised the band for "subvert[ing] doom's bleak conventions, painting the genre's slowpoke churn with uplifting melodies, cosmic textures and Scheidt's existential howl like a dreampop Dio."[7] NPR Music said about the album: "the lightness is devastating."[11]

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Decibel	Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2018	1	[12]
Consequence of Sound	Top 25 Metal + Hard Rock Albums of 2018	1	[13]
Metal Injection	Top 20 Albums of 2018	5	[14]
Vulture.com	15 Best Albums of 2018	12	[15]

Track list

Personnel

• Mike Scheidt – vocal, guitars
• Aaron Rieseberg – bass
• Travis Foster – drums

Additional musicians

• Billy Barnett – piano

Charts

Chart performance for Our Raw Heart

Chart (2018)	Peak position
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[16]	20
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[17]	37
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[18]	9
US Vinyl Albums (Billboard)[19]	3

References

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