Arrowhead
by Prurient
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  1. EricC.
    Jan 10, 2009
    9
    Whaaaaaaat? Prurient on Metacritic? Man, I feel for all the high-score hunters who'll pick this up with no taste for noise. But anyway, I'm a huge Prurient fan, so of course this album hits a few major pleasure centers. But it's not the best place to start. Hear And Still, Wanting first. It's one of the best noise albums I've ever heard, and a good place to start Whaaaaaaat? Prurient on Metacritic? Man, I feel for all the high-score hunters who'll pick this up with no taste for noise. But anyway, I'm a huge Prurient fan, so of course this album hits a few major pleasure centers. But it's not the best place to start. Hear And Still, Wanting first. It's one of the best noise albums I've ever heard, and a good place to start with Prurient and noise as a whole. Prurient can be very rough, but almost all of his albums offer a rewarding experience, something that can't be said for all noise composers/musicians.… Expand

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Dusted Magazine
    80
    The in-the-moment experience of Fernow’s music is all physical; the aftershock is almost all intellectual, the specifics of the apparent transformation provided entirely by the listener, who is left standing not so much accused as self-implicated.
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  2. Pitchfork
    88
    Its stylized, specific, and unflinching sound roars with a singular menace, at once terrifying and captivating.
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  3. Prefix Magazine
    80
    Unsettling and unexpectedly ravishing in equal measure, Prurient’s latest is as accomplished an album as his followers have come to expect.
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