Dog Whistle

Show Me the Body - Dog Whistle
Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2019 Ratings: #117 / 805
User Score
Based on 478 ratings
2019 Rank: #254
Liked by 39 people
March 29, 2019 / Release Date
LP / Format
Loma Vista / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
The 405

As a whole, Dog Whistle reflects America’s decay with sonic brutality and an urban grit rarely experienced in the hardcore scene these days.

90
Northern Transmissions

Through the three piece’s pummelling amalgamation of caustic noise, violent punk and punishing rap, SMTB have solidified the angst, unease and frustration of what it is to be human in 2019.

85
The Line of Best Fit

Show Me The Body’s fierce political maelstrom is the truest continuation of the spirit of punk of any band working with guitars today.

80
Tiny Mix Tapes

I’m exhausted by myself, but you give me life.

80
NME

The production is slicker, the songwriting more considered, and the statement more solidified.

80
DIY

‘Dog Whistle’ is vital and forceful enough across its length to sound like life and death.

80
Loud and Quiet

While the production ensures the edges are somewhat smoother that doesn’t serve to extract their potent sting but simply to make it a smidgeon more digestible.

80
The Guardian

Thrashing tinnily through lo-fi garage production, they sit somewhere between At the Drive-In’s tight soapbox screeds and Death Grips’ loose, rangy sermons, and in a lineage of right-on, pissed-off US punk stretching back to Fugazi.

70
The Needle Drop

New York's Show Me The Body drops a ferocious set of banjo-backed punk ragers that are equal parts explosive and unsettling.

68
Pitchfork

The band have produced their most cohesive work to date, however one that struggles to maintain interest and energy throughout its 30-minute runtime.

Space Vacation
85

Trying hard not to start fires and call specific people out but the last week has been a huge downer for AOTY.
People criticizing how others listen to things or trying to put rules on how many times you need to listen to something before it's okay in their eyes to rate or review it.
Too many people on here take themselves too seriously. It's incredibly pompous and toxic.
If you haven't listened to the entire album and still rate it-- that's one thing.
But saying someone is wrong for listening ... read more

PipePanic
85

I don't really have a thought on this album that hasn't been told before. It's hardhitting punk music that you NEED TO HEAR, but I don't really have a review that would properly convey that. It's an album worth checking out for it's brutal metallic and biting riffs and snarling vocals for sure, and you shouldn't miss out on it by any stretch of the imagination.

So, i'm going to talk a little bit about why i've been so inactive recently.

So, last week, I was planning on making my way over the ... read more

MiaWatterson
80

Holy coooowww this is damn cool

Forgemaster
87

I never knew banjos could be so hardcore

Flexreviews
88

BANJO HARDCORE

Victorovich
60

For some reason, quite good post-hardcore/noise rock musicians invited a rapper as a vocalist, who tries in every possible way to hide that he is a rapper and pretends that he is a normal vocalist, but he absolutely cannot do this, which is why a potentially good album sounds very degenerate in places and eventually descends into complete crap. But I think most people should like this album.

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Added on: February 8, 2019