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Aug 7, 2013Abandon is quite short for a full-length album, but its physicality and intensity leaves the listener exhausted in a way that doesn't require further expansion.
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Jun 18, 2013Together these four pieces create a single, near-breathless listening experience, robust enough to envelop but varied enough to leave you both craving and curious for more.
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MagnetJun 18, 2013Abandon is a baseline, with Chardiet demonstrating a solid understanding of the fundamentals. [No.99, p.59]
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May 28, 2013Abandon is one of the most cathartic, brutalizing, and beautiful experimental releases this or any year.
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May 28, 2013Abandon is an exercise in precision, drawing in its prey and exposing it to a sonic assault that will leave it both exhausted and enlightened.
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May 16, 2013Boy, those throbs are deep; boy, those screams are wrenching; boy, those patterns are sustained.
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May 16, 2013Getting forcibly pinned down in her personal cycle of attack and retreat is a dark, visceral, utterly compelling thrill.
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May 16, 2013Abandon’s hammering slow pneumatic-drill beats are not so much an all-out assault as a grueling siege, in which the beleaguered inhabitants of the psyche find themselves starving, barely existing in a rising cesspool of their own shit and vomit, ridden with epidemic disease, turning to cannibalism and to frantic final Decameronesque debaucheries.
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May 16, 2013Even the sharpest pain, the deepest hell can be survived, and Abandon is a reminder of that.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 18
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Mixed: 3 out of 18
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Negative: 4 out of 18
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