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100
The album conjures a dark, enticing dynamism unparalleled even by the band's own extraordinary output.
2mo
100
The punk band go full pelt for their final album, a set livid with worldly disgust and bitter humour.
2mo
90
Prior to the album's release, White Lung announced they would be breaking up after Premonition, and if that does end up being the case, they've gone out with a magnificently gutsy farewell.
2mo
80
Premonition is a finely wrought, searing career-coda, determined to take a sledgehammer to the cliché that growing older must result in complacency.
2mo
80
A celebration of a band who’ve approached music with a high-velocity elegiac understanding.
2mo
80
The final album from the Canadian punks is maternal instinct at its fiercest.
2mo
72
Premonition arrives knowing the end is near, but the band performs like it refuses to end with a whimper.
1mo
70
The group have said this is their final album, and say goodbye in unsentimental but explosive fashion.
2mo
66
The Canadian punk band’s fifth and final album is a softer, more family-oriented affair, with reflections on motherhood and loss set to metallic riffs.
1mo
60
Despite the band's commendably cyclonic hardcore punk energy, Premonition underscores the fact that White Lung are a vehicle with only one gear, and one that has now run out of road.
2mo
60
With so much going on, it’s not really all that surprising that the ten songs on this record are lyrically more mature sounding than the tracks found on 2016’s Paradise.
2mo
60
Her lyrics boast a new focus without alcohol, suddenly facing an entirely sober recording session.
2mo
60
Taken in isolation, each song sounds bracingly exciting, yet across Premonition as a whole there is a creeping sense of sameyness.
1mo
40
This inoffensive yet entirely forgettable record feels twice as long as its running time suggests. It so happens that this is the trio’s final album — it’s just a shame they’ve bowed out with a whimper, rather than a snarl.
1mo
Hysteric - 4/5
Date Night - 4/5
Tomorrow - 4/5
Under Glass - 5/5 ❤
Mountain - 4/5
If You’re Gone - 5/5 ❤
Girl - 3/5
Bird - 4/5
One Day - 4/5
Winter - 4/5
I just wish I had gotten a Deep Fantasy 2. This is definitely a step in the right direction, as songs like Date Night show that the band is at least trying to snap back into that infectious energy they had but the problem is that this is the last hurrah. This is their last record and they really ended up disappointing me as they had all the potential in the world but it kind of fell flat on a couple of underwhelming releases. Not a bad note to go out on, but not a sweet one either.
I jumped on board with Canadian punks White Lung on their snarly 2014 effort Deep Fantasy and that interest only intensified with the wider appeal of 2016’s Paradise and now after an extremely long gap, the band returns to say goodbye with Premonition. Peering through these lyrics, it becomes very clear that vocalist Mish Barber-Way is ready to set this stage of her life behind, as she channels her focus onto her family. The shift on lyrical perspectives on these tracks brings a nice ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Hysteric 2:52 | 83 |
| 2 | Date Night 2:54 | 71 |
| 3 | Tomorrow 2:56 | 75 |
| 4 | Under Glass 3:06 | 75 |
| 5 | Mountain 2:14 | 77 |
| 6 | If You’re Gone 3:25 | 87 |
| 7 | Girl 2:10 | 66 |
| 8 | Bird 3:15 | 84 |
| 9 | One Day 2:43 | 82 |
| 10 | Winter 3:49 | 86 |
Total Length: 29 minutes
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Added on: September 20, 2022