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| 3.5 great | lz41 | January 1st 24 |
Discomfortingly intense and dogged post-punk. Joe Casey brings you eyeball-to-eyeball, most successfully on the album closer 'Rain Garden'.
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| 3.5 great | olisz | July 24th 24 |
While the aggressive tone and shouty vocals as on Make Way do not appeal to me, I find especially the second half of the album quite enjoyable. Usually that extends to a good overall feeling about the album.
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| 3.0 good | cjbizzlebizzle | November 4th 23 |
'Make Way' and 'Polacrilex Kid' are really nice tracks but I always seem to think I will be in it for the long run with Protomartyr's music but it doesn't end up having the lasting effect I am looking for. Noisy, artsy and atmospheric post punk with great guitar work. In the end I think it is a bit too artsy or philosophical for me, and the vocals/songs in general are a bit samey throughout the album.
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| 3.4 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | June 13th 23 |
Protomartyr go for a more gothic approach to their post-punk (also with some occasional steel guitar). Formal Growth in the Desert thus has a slow pacing (yeah the usual) that somehow doesn't work as much on me as I would have liked - the songs are undeniably great, the record is consistent, but its monotony makes it lack the *oomph* factor that Relatives in Descent had.
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| 3.5 great | Brabiz | August 17th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | blob28 | June 26th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Moraff | March 20th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | January 8th 24 |
| 3.7 great | A.R.O. EMERITUS | December 24th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Doobuc | September 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | July 12th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | June 28th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | gilly | June 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | mallen- | June 23rd 23 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt | June 21st 23 |
| 5.0 classic | dafjam | June 14th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | botb | June 13th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | June 13th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | gdask | June 13th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Timmy | June 12th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Macck | June 11th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 9th 23 |
| 3.0 good | jhop | June 6th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | fog | June 4th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sunnyvale EMERITUS | June 3rd 23 |
| 4.5 superb | anat | June 3rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | foxxxy | June 2nd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | June 2nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | doofy | June 2nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | iGuter | June 2nd 23 |
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