Return To Annihilation

Locrian - Return To Annihilation
Critic Score
Based on 10 reviews
2013 Ratings: #193 / 1115
User Score
Based on 22 ratings
Liked by 2 people
June 25, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Relapse / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
Pitchfork

This is the rare album that reveals new depth within a catalog that already seemed so deep and ruminative while proclaiming rather unlimited possibilities for a band nearing the end of its first decade.

70
Tiny Mix Tapes

While Locrian’s molding of the rock idiom to the apocalyptic theme isn’t novel, their use is often more nuanced than their predecessor’s appropriations of the same ideas.

70
PopMatters

The strongest element the band took from its prog forebears for this compact, powerful record is just the sense of the album as a journey, one that feels complete.

70
Consequence of Sound

Return to Annihilation has its darker tones, but it also has bright moments and sees the band developing variation in its songwriting.

Gaynebula
96

‘Return to Annihilation’ is a visceral, liminal black hole. It’s unsettling and upsetting, the death of escapism in real time. It floods every corner, leaving you nowhere to flee the gloom of its dread. It’s the death of holidays, of love, of joy and of life- its cover art perfectly captures its depressed anxiety.

While its thick hopeless fog is deeply effectual, its ambience progressing a visceral tension far beyond its highly abstract scope, there is considerable ... read more

ShoegazeJake
100

The album cover is as perfect as the album

MrGuy
58

Lots of great ideas on this album. But there’s just way too much dead space to get to the actual good stuff on the album. It’s like a post post rock album

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Added on: June 24, 2013