Abandon

Pharmakon - Abandon
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
2013 Ratings: #161 / 1115
User Score
Based on 107 ratings
2013 Rank: #355
Liked by 5 people
May 14, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Sacred Bones / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

85
Beats Per Minute

Abandon is one of the most cathartic, brutalizing, and beautiful experimental releases this or any year.

80
Pitchfork

Abandon is a brick hurtling through the windshield of a moving car, a purposefully antagonistic act that forces you to fully focus on the moment. 

80
Tiny Mix Tapes

This is a suffering that calls itself up in order to cathart itself, which expels itself from the mouth, like bile, and is captured mechanically in order to perform the same paradoxical operation of penetrative-aggression-that-is-exorcism upon the listener.

80
Consequence of Sound

The four tracks of power electronics that follow burn and burrow, every gasp for breath filling the lungs with more soot and smoke, every exhalation fanning the flames.

80
The 405

Music as deeply unsettling as this doesn't come along too often - it's a challenging record whose rewards you really have to earn, but give it time and it will eventually start to open up, and maybe even in ways you were never expecting.

70
AllMusic

Instead of the chaotic improv one would normally expect from a noise album like this, Abandon is an exercise in precision, drawing in its prey and exposing it to a sonic assault that will leave it both exhausted and enlightened.

VanillaCult
81

FAVORITE TRACKS: MILKWEED / IT HANGS HEAVY, ACHE, PITTED.

LEAST FAV TRACK: CRAWLING ON BRUISED KNEES.

vivi
20

Horrifying, truly horrifying. This paints a picture of sheer terror and nothing else, absolutely anxiety inducing. I did not enjoy this album one bit, it stressed me out and I just overall cannot stand noise music from what I have heard (can you even really call it music? I don't know.) I'm sure maybe one day I'll find a noise album I like but I just did not enjoy this. On the other hand, this is a very artistic project though, I can hear that it has actual effort in it, and with all of the ... read more

paralirava
6

Poor woman

Olfa00
NR

Not quite sure if i enjoyed this or not

bjorkp_3
40

unlistenable

VanillaCult
81

FAVORITE TRACKS: MILKWEED / IT HANGS HEAVY, ACHE, PITTED.

LEAST FAV TRACK: CRAWLING ON BRUISED KNEES.

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Added on: May 16, 2013