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Review Summary: Highly contagious Congregation might be Witch Fever’s first full-length, but the British collective have already found their sound. Fusing punk attitude and energy, grunge riffs, Gothic sensibilities, and occasional doom metal textures, their music is unrelenting, driven forward by head-bangable instrumentation and Amy Walpole’s singular vocals, always powerful and occasionally unhinged. This is gritty and passionate music, filled with outrage at some of the usual suspects: entrenched patriarchy, organized religion, reactionary politics, and the like. The biggest gripe to be found is a general sense of “saminess” throughout, although this is somewhat alleviated both by the brief nature of most of the songs and the greater variety introduced by the final one-two punch of the unusually restrained, aptly-titled “Slow Burn” and the absolutely frenetic closer “12”. Congregation works well for Halloween season listening, or really for any time that the mood calls for snarling, angry, “in your face” tunes. A few quibbles aside, this is a rock-solid debut and it’ll be interesting to see where these women take their music next.
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Album Rating: 3.8
Nothing earth-shattering here but this is a quite strong first effort that I think many here would enjoy.
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found out that the bassist of Pigsx7 (Sam Grant) did production work on this and it sounds straight up my alley musically from what you wrote here so I'm excited to check!
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Seems like another one I should check
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The vocals on here are so loud and so forward in the mix. Some cool riffs, though. It's a shame how distracting the vocals are, especially considering they would be more than passable if they weren't so damn loud.
That being said, I'm a big fan of this succinct, informative review.
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ars incoming to complain about review length in.... 3... 2....
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
yeah, agreed on this, it's solid
for me not as good as Amyl and the Sniffers but much prefer it to Petrol Girls
it's a punk album in rock clothing and I like that angle
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Remind me of Babes in Toyland but with slightly less abrasive vocals.
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Love that album art. Has kind of a 70's retro look to it.
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Thanks guys!
@Dewi, yeah, I think this is in your wheelhouse for sure.
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^completely off-topic but is this Jim Lahey?
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Frick off, Ricky!
*No, I'm not Jim Lahey, but yes, this username is a Trailer Park Boys reference.
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Greee-ee-eeeasy
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Didn't think much of this after a couple of tracks...but it grew on me real fast. Love the subwoofer-shattering bass in places.
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