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I forced a bot to listen to 10,000 hours of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's music on a loop and then write its own Godspeed album and this was the result.

It's still great of course, if lacking in surprises. I would like to watch a supercut of images taken from Adam Curtis documentaries, of people dancing to the slow heat death of western democracy, soundtracked by this album. That would be perfect.

Ryann Slauson has a voice that cuts like a white hot, serrated knife. It’s a panic attack rendered in the medium of air pushed desperately and violently over vocal cords; a nerve-shredding alarm call for the soul. It’s also likely to be the make-or-break element for listeners new to the formerly Brooklyn-based, now scattered-across-the-states, emotive and heavy post-hardcore band, Closer.

With their preternaturally promising 2018 debut, All This Will Be, Ryann Slauson ... read more

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Austin post-genre, unholy noise peddlers Portrayal of Guilt have spent the last five years making the kind of relentlessly bleak, extreme heavy music that could have its central thesis statement be boiled down to the assertion at the top of this review. Your response to that statement – c’mon, who doesn’t love a little self-discovery via multiple choice? – should ... read more

Respire’s new album Black Line opens with the sound of 2020: a garbage fire crackling in the night. Our collective hopes and dreams rise like embers, glowing briefly only to be extinguished, to disappear into the void.

Perhaps, it’s because Respire are a Canadian DIY collective, but upon hearing “Blight”, the instrumental prologue to the band’s third and arguably most accomplished abum, I was immediately drawn to recall that iconic car on fire with no driver at ... read more