Christs, Redeemers

The Body - Christs, Redeemers
Critic Score
Based on 9 reviews
2013 Ratings: #89 / 1115
User Score
Based on 32 ratings
Liked by 6 people
October 15, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Thrill Jockey / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
Tiny Mix Tapes

Not only is this album a journey into the darkest caverns of the most sordid mind, but it also harbors the potential to hold you there, dangling all on your own accord.

80
PopMatters

The Body makes difficult music, and Christs, Redeemers is that difficulty at its most masterful and controlled, even as it seems at every turn unruly, deeply and truly dangerous.

80
AllMusic

The experience of listening to the album is a harrowing one, but the bevy of unexpected shifts, sidesteps, and complete submission into patches of noise makes it one of the more adventurous metal records of its type

80
The 405

The faint of heart are advised to steer well clear of an album like this; everyone else - if you're in the mood to be challenged, to be immersed within the sheer, destructive force of uncompromising music, Christs, Redeemers should be your next port of call.

70
Pitchfork

The same focus and force that make Christs, Redeemers so heavy are the same attributes that make it less terrifying than its predecessors.

Melancoholic
60

Decent.

Brihongol
89

This is blacker than Africa.

Gaynebula
100

Words fail the extraordinarily specific place this album holds in my heart.

I won't sugarcoat it or beat around the bush: 'Christs, Redeemers-' along with the rest of The Body's discography- isn't for everyone. Or most people. Or even many people at all. The band play an idiosyncratically overblown, severe and harsh form of doomy sludge, comprised of vast, reverberating, fuzzed-out doomy riffs beneath indecipherable hysterical shrieking. Aside from some intermittent haunted effects-laden vocal ... read more

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Track List

  1. I, The Mourner of Perished Days
  2. To Attempt Openness
  3. Melt Away
  4. An Altar or a Grave
  5. Failure to Desire to Communicate
  6. Night of Blood in a World Without End
  7. Prayers Unanswered
  8. Denial of the Species
  9. Shrouded
  10. Bearer of Bad Tidings

Year End Lists

#29/Tiny Mix Tapes
#78/The Quietus
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Added on: October 10, 2013