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90
Ugly yet beautiful ‘Atlas Vending’ just illustrates how METZ are the masters of their craft.
3mo
80
True to form, the Toronto band maintain a formidable degree of power and velocity throughout their fourth album.
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4mo
80
Atlas Landing, the noisy Canadians’ fourth album, delivers more of the same, in the best way possible. It’s loud, angry and ready for a few beers.
3mo
80
Atlas Vending finds them pushing things forward, broadening their horizons to tremendous effect.
3mo
80
‘Atlas Vending’ is the sound of a band fully confident in itself and delivering their biggest and best work yet.
3mo
80
METZ are an animal that's evolved to its benefit, with an appetite that's more refined and teeth that are still razor sharp.
3mo
80
A record that feels both raw and refined, this will shake you to the core.
3mo
80
The expansiveness of the sonic palette on Atlas Vending just gives the band more room to paint outside the lines.
3mo
80
A beautifully crafted record that touches on all kinds of relevant themes and leads to some peaks that the band have never reached before.
3mo
80
Produced and recorded with a skill that's all the more effective for its unwillingness to intrude on the band, Atlas Vending is a dazzling display of form and content that shows listeners how math rock can be effectively weaponized.
3mo
80
A pile-driving, hyper-cranked post-punk insistence defines the intensity of Toronto trio Metz's skewed dislocation of dream-pop soundscape and next-level hardcore. Well worth (re)discovering.
3mo
77
There’s no point on Atlas Vending that feels wasted, no meandering or time-sucks; it’s just pure adrenaline rock expertly produced and delivered piping hot.
3mo
71
The trio flexes a little, offering more complicated song structures and a palette that varies a little more.
3mo
70
With a more cavernous sound than previous albums, the fourth full-length from Toronto trio Metz is not a significant break from a track record of noise rock.
3mo
70
Atlas Vending ... is no carbon copy of any of Metz’s previous releases, and it’s in the moments where they legitimately push their sound forward where it’s at its strongest.
3mo
64
The Toronto band’s pummeling sound still evokes white-knuckled, visceral disgust, but they struggle to take these songs somewhere more interesting than they started.
3mo
METZ have stood up as my favorite modern noise rock outfit for nearly a decade now. The moment I was introduced to the act back in 2012 with the release of their debut self-titled record I was hooked for life, and Wasted is still one of my favorite tracks of that entire decade. The trio have remained intact for the entirety of the groups decade long tenure, and although their previous two albums II and Strange Peace didn't quite live up to that debut, the group have never truly failed to ... read more
My brain is on fucking fire.
I had no idea what to expect going into this record. Like, literally none. Metz are a band that i’ve heard about for sure, with some of my favorite bands like Idles and Daughters praising their punchy noise rock sound from here to eternity. Hailing from Canada, these three guys have often been labeled as ‘noise, abrasive and punchy as hell’. And for those who know me, you know that those descriptions make me wetter than a motherfucker.
But, with ... read more
I had no idea what to expect going into this record. Like, literally none. Metz are a band that i’ve heard about for sure, with some of my favorite bands like Idles and Daughters praising their punchy noise rock sound from here to eternity. Hailing from Canada, these three guys have often been labeled as ‘noise, abrasive and punchy as hell’. And for those who know me, you know that those descriptions make me wetter than a motherfucker.
But, with ... read more
Split the difference between Fugazi and Daughters and you'll land end up with something close to Metz in 2020.
While 'Atlas Vending' is a very good Noise Rock album from METZ that has some incredible tracks and instrumentation, it sounds so derivative of Daughters a lot of the time that it just leaves me wanting to go listen to some 'You Won't Get What You Want' or their self-titled instead.
"That's just like You Won't Get What You Want but worse" could have said a lot of reviewers going into the new METZ album. And it's completely understandable – the impact Daughters did outside the noise rock community with the release of their 2018 mastodon is unimaginable. It's hard not to do so for me also – both are amazingly produced works of great craftsmanship. Yet they tend to differ – even if not so much as I want them to.
I was really hyped going into ... read more
I was really hyped going into ... read more
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Track List
- Pulse
- Blind Youth Industrial Park
- The Mirror
- No Ceiling
- Hail Taxi
- Draw Us In
- Sugar Pill
- Framed by the Comet's Tail
- Parasite
- A Boat to Drown In
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Added on: July 21, 2020