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86
Abrasive, affecting and more melancholy than ever, this is the most wide-reaching Prurient album yet.
85
With Niagara, he's taken strengths from his entire oeuvre to reach deeper into himself and produce what may be his best record yet, one that brings all the fulfillment of noise and transcends them all the same.
80
The album is dripping in homage to power electronics, harsh noise, and ambient synth music; it’s a combination of influences that have been explored to varying extents throughout his back catalogue, and it’s been done here to impeccable effect.
80
Blare Falls in the prescribed order, on shuffle, in a plane, on a train: You’ll dance, you’ll cringe, your Mom will freak out, your homies may start rumors about you — which is as it should be.
80
Frozen Niagara Falls digs beyond human emotion into a dizzying journey of large scale disaster.
80
This is Dominick Fernow’s most high-profile release in his long career recording under the name Prurient, and it’s akin to an epic compilation of his life’s work.
80
Prurient's new double album is a soul-crushing carnival of blissful, tundra-temperature misery.
75
Whether you’re walking the streets with a broken heart or raging in a cramped studio apartment, whether you lean more toward dense, abrasive power electronics or dark, airy ambience, Fernow sees where you’re coming from.
70
Any Prurient release is a demanding listen, but Frozen Niagara Falls is one of his most surprising and rewarding works.
70
It transforms you and gives you the opportunity to love and be loved, and while these aren't songs explicit like a singer-songwriter record - despite Fernow initially planning on Frozen Niagara Falls as an acoustic album - you can search through and find the beauty in the shit.
If you like dark, haunting, immersive album experiences you really need to give this thing a shot. It is one of the best records of the decade for that kind of category.
The audio equivalent of giving a DSBM band synths and telling them to work it out
An overall ok album, mostly just noise, but when prurient decides to actually do music, MAN can this guy make bangers. This album gets really somber, and the singer often feels like hes on the verge of tears The 2nd and last track are both great. Almost every track is harsh, and points of stability and control are sparse and rare.
I do have a few complaints. some tracks can feel long and drawn out, and could ... read more
The atmosphere on here is absolutely superb. The talents of harsh noise and power electronics are incorporated absolutely beautifully with haunting foggy melodies, making for an experience that puts you in an atmosphere of pain, catharsis, and beauty. Wonderful
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Track List
| 1 | Myth of Building Bridges 10:17 | 83 |
| 2 | Dragonflies to Sew You Up 5:19 | 89 |
| 3 | A Sorrow with a Braid 4:53 | 74 |
| 4 | Every Relationship Earthrise 3:13 | 77 |
| 5 | Traditional Snowfall 5:16 | 73 |
| 6 | Jester in Agony 7:14 | 84 |
| 7 | Poinsettia Pills 3:16 | 69 |
| 8 | Shoulders of Summerstones 5:15 | 80 |
| 9 | Wildflowers (Long Hair with Stocking Cap) 0:38 | 48 |
| 10 | Greenpoint 10:09 | 76 |
| 11 | Lives Torn Apart (Nyc) 3:23 | 77 |
| 12 | Frozen Niagara Falls (Portion One) 7:02 | 72 |
| 13 | Cocaine Daughter 5:00 | 79 |
| 14 | Falling Mask 1:57 | 74 |
| 15 | Frozen Niagara Falls (Portion Two) 7:19 | 69 |
| 16 | Christ Among the Broken Glass 11:21 | 87 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Year End Lists
| #14 | / | The Needle Drop |
| #28 | / | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| #33 | / | Decibel |
| #33 | / | FACT Magazine |
| #33 | / | Norman Records |
| #34 | / | No Ripcord |
| #38 | / | The Quietus |
| #41 | / | Crack Magazine |
| #43 | / | Consequence of Sound |
| #49 | / | PopMatters |
Added on: March 26, 2015