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- Summary: The Tampa band is back to a trio (Carson Cox, Dave Vassalotti, and Pat Brady) for its second full-length on the 4AD label and was for the first time recorded partly in a studio.
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- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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| Lonesome Sound | |
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| To be free I went hunting Deep in the ground Where beauty dies Her secrets lie But are never found Just let me drown In that lonesome sound And... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Sep 23, 2016It makes for an exhausting and engrossing listen, and ultimately can’t be anything but a life-affirming statement.
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Sep 21, 2016For those who have paid close attention to the band’s evolution, it seemed inevitable that he would get to this point. Accordingly, A Corpse Wired for Sound feels like a culmination.
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Sep 21, 2016A Corpse Wired for Sound is still distinctively a Merchandise album, even though it’s a relative departure from their previous work. It definitely sounds a lot lonelier than its predecessors, though, as if Merchandise have become isolated by their own intelligence.
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Sep 30, 2016It’s a beautiful album, and it’s the sound of a band realising they can finally do anything they want with sound.
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Dec 6, 2016This album is not great as background music, because its dark emotion can be oppressive. However, it's a record full of detail.
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Sep 26, 2016Corpse overcomes its moments, due in part to concision and earnest songwriting.
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Sep 22, 2016It starts strong: the aforementioned song is has the melancholic chaos of the Smiths’ at their stormiest, but what follows is less direct and full of dirge.
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