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80
Cathartic and confident, Prey//IV releases her pain with a diamond-like strength and clarity that is entirely her own.
80
The unbreakable artist has reemerged from the wreckage of her former band, Crystal Castles, with a lazer-focused, brutally honest solo debut.
80
On the whole, PREY//IV expresses a dance-when-you're-sad energy that Glass and Kath never quite achieved with Crystal Castles, and that Kath and Glass stand-in Edith Frances have yet to capture since the enigmatic former frontwoman's departure.
80
Pulling you in two directions at all times, PREY//IV is a party at the end of your wits, where the only option is to give in or overcome. In the end, endurance wins.
80
On ‘PREY///IV’, her debut full-length album, Alice lets everything out in a cathartic release of stunning intensity and dark pop brilliance.
78
Violent, melodic, and powerful — Glass reclaims her stance and narrative with confidence in a cinematic, trance and dub-step driven work of cathedral/goth art.
73
On her long-gestating debut album, Glass sounds like she’s walking through memories of being emotionally abused, rather than raging with daggers out.
70
An album defined by a sort of constant itchiness, a wish to rid itself of trauma by occupying it so fully.
70
On Prey//IV, Glass continues to pursue healing through cathartic fantasies of violence, extracting the darkest elements of the witch house sound that she helped to popularize with Crystal Castles in order to examine the dynamics of domestic abuse.
70
Over 13 tracks, Glass dissects her experiences from every angle: she sounds alternately enraged, broken, contemptuous, and often surprisingly matter of fact, marking these changes in tone with virtuosic shifts in her vocal performances.
70
It’s not a record that can be re-listened to with ease while performing a monotonous activity, but it has a lot of importance and eye-opening meaning that its a worthy inclusion to this year’s album releases.
69
The full-length solo debut from the former Crystal Castles singer a dark, extreme pop record about abuse, power, and regaining control.
68
Glass often switches between abused and abuser, highlighting a need to face up to the actions, motivations, and internal drive of another’s actions as a huge step in the healing process.
60
With Prey/IV, Glass seizes control of the sequence, and the narrative, for herself.
60
A cathartic purge of the past in order to start a brighter future.
Alice Glass participava do duo Crystal Castles, entretanto em 2014, foi anunciada sua saída pelo motivo de ter sofrido vários abusos sexuais pelo outro integrante do duo, Ethan Kath. Com isso, a artista anunciou que ia começar uma carreira solo e esta era muito esperada, entretanto em seu primeiro projeto solo, seu EP auto intitulado lançado em 2017, a cantora decepcionou bastante, no entanto esperava que em um álbum ela poderia mostrar algo de grande ... read more
This album, from a conceptual standpoint, is fantastic. After years and years of laying low after her infamous departure from Crystal Castles, Alice is finally back for good with her first LP, and she's ready to tell it ALL. I love the title of the album, referencing the numbering system of the previous CC records, like this is the crazy follow up to III we never got. I love the way the cover art calls back to the Bruised Madonna artwork by Trevor Brown, which the group used in their debut EP ... read more
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The structure of many songs here fall flat, and the combination of her heavy use of vocal effects and her more whisper like delivery makes it hard to tell what’s she’s saying, but I love the industrial/electropop style production, and Alice’s lyricism about the trauma she endured really hits home on many tracks here. I’ve never heard Alice’s or Crystal Castles’s music before this, let alone the horrible circumstances that inspired this ... read more
Definitely feels like Alice has taken some time to release her debut solo album because she hadn’t exactly found her musical identity. Ultimately she has come out with debut solo album several years after her split from Crystal Castles, and it still feels like she hasn’t found a sound she feels comfortable with. The album feels disjointed, in cohesive and ends pretty abruptly. It has a fair share of decent songs on it, just feel she has the ability to make a better album.
Prey ~ ★★★★☆
Pinned beneath Limbs ~ ★★★☆☆
Love Is Violence ~ ★★☆☆☆
Baby Teeth ~ ★★★☆☆
Everybody Else ~ ★★☆☆☆
The Hunted ~ ★★★☆☆
Fair Game ~ ★★☆☆☆
Witch Hunt ~ ★★★☆☆
Suffer and Swallow ~ ★★☆☆☆
Suffer in Peace ~ ★★★☆☆
Animosity ~ ★★☆☆☆
I Trusted You ~ ★★☆☆☆
Sorrow Ends ~ ★★☆☆☆
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Track List
| 1 | PREY 1:49 | 71 |
| 2 | PINNED BENEATH LIMBS 1:55 | 67 |
| 3 | LOVE IS VIOLENCE 2:40 | 71 |
| 4 | BABY TEETH 2:25 | 74 |
| 5 | EVERYBODY ELSE 3:55 | 65 |
| 6 | THE HUNTED 2:47 | 63 |
| 7 | FAIR GAME 2:46 | 70 |
| 8 | WITCH HUNT 2:58 | 65 |
| 9 | SUFFER AND SWALLOW 2:53 | 69 |
| 10 | SUFFER IN PEACE 1:48 | 58 |
| 11 | ANIMOSITY 2:50 | 65 |
| 12 | I TRUSTED YOU 2:29 | 62 |
| 13 | SORROW ENDS 1:01 | 52 |
Total Length: 32 minutes
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Added on: November 19, 2021