More Faithful is a masterpiece for headphones, and more enjoyable with every listen at high, open air volumes, easily offering the best songwriting and aural presentation the band has mustered yet.
More Faithful feels like their first stab proper at a record that genuinely represents the sound they’ve been gunning for since day one.
More Faithful is a genre-bending record with explosive yet concentrated sound that stays true to No Joy’s signature shoegaze rock.
A little more clarity wouldn't have gone amiss here and there, but there's enough on offer to bring curious listeners back for repeated spins, which is just as well, as More Faithful is definitely a grower.
At its best, as on the rampant "I Am An Eye Machine", More Faithful is an inch away from essential: a few more hooks would make all the difference.
2,5,7,9,11
They're just not finding the melodies as easily as they did on Wait to Pleasure. Still a band that's capable of greatness, and there are some stellar cuts here.
1 | Remember Nothing 2:27 | |
2 | Everything New 4:07 | |
3 | Hollywood Teeth 2:10 | |
4 | Moon in my Mouth 4:10 | |
5 | Burial in Twos 3:13 | |
6 | Corpo Daemon 2:21 | |
7 | Bolas 3:24 | |
8 | Chalk Snake 3:34 | |
9 | Rude Films 3:29 | |
10 | I Am an Eye Machine 4:31 | |
11 | Judith 2:59 |