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Loathe: A Stranger to You review
(SharpTone) Granite-hard riffola collides with balm-like electronics and tinkling jazz piano in a thrilling fourth album of musical metamorphosis Loathe took six years to make this fourth album, explaining they wanted to make it very special. Accordingly, A Stranger to You ventures far from the Liverpudlians’ metalcore origins to create an odyssey of mixed and colliding genres. Punishing riffola and slabs of industrial noise coexist with balm-like electronics, acoustic guitars, shoegaze, tinkling jazz pianos and guest rapper Bucki Sugar’s spoken-word narratives (“ever forward, forever motion”). Other guests include vocalist Olli Appleyard from Leeds rockers Static Dress, production duo Nowhere2run and – most unlikely of all – slinky jazz-soul producer Jordan Rakei. Precedents for this sort of radical metal departure include Deafheaven’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love and Linkin Park’s divis
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(SharpTone) Granite-hard riffola collides with balm-like electronics and tinkling jazz piano in a thrilling fourth album of musical metamorphosis Loathe took six years to make this fourth album, explaining they wanted to make it very special. Accordingly, A Stranger to You ventures far from the Liverpudlians’ metalcore origins to create an odyssey of mixed and colliding genres. Punishing riffola and slabs of industrial noise coexist with balm-like electronics, acoustic guitars, shoegaze, tinkling jazz pianos and guest rapper Bucki Sugar’s spoken-word narratives (“ever forward, forever motion”). Other guests include vocalist Olli Appleyard from Leeds rockers Static Dress, production duo Nowhere2run and – most unlikely of all – slinky jazz-soul producer Jordan Rakei. Precedents for this sort of radical metal departure include Deafheaven’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love and Linkin Park’s divis
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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Loathe: A Stranger to You review, (SharpTone) Granite-hard riffola collides with balm-like electronics and tinkling jazz piano in a thrilling fourth album of musical metamorphosis Loathe took six years to make this fourth album, explaining they wanted to make it very special. Accordingly, A Stranger to You ventures far from the Liverpudlians’ metalcore origins to create an odyssey of mixed and colliding genres. Punishing riffola and slabs of industrial noise coexist with balm-like electronics, acoustic guitars, shoegaze, tinkling jazz pianos and guest rapper Bucki Sugar’s spoken-word narratives (“ever forward, forever motion”). Other guests include vocalist Olli Appleyard from Leeds rockers Static Dress, production duo Nowhere2run and – most unlikely of all – slinky jazz-soul producer Jordan Rakei. Precedents for this sort of radical metal departure include Deafheaven’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love and Linkin Park’s divis
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