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- Summary: The first of a planned two-part concept album from the North Carolina prog-metal band.
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- Record Label: Sumerian Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative Metal
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Mar 9, 2018Despite feeling a bit too unsurprising and safe--not to mention brief--to really rival its masterful precursors, Automata I is still a knockout effort that proves once again why Between the Buried and Me is the superlative act of their particular style.
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Mar 9, 2018Automata I cherry-picks from some of the best elements of previous Between the Buried and Me records, while injecting their masterful sense of musicianship and structure.
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Mar 9, 2018Automata I is excellent on its own; its writing, production, and performances are all top flight. Additionally, it whets the appetite of anticipation for part two.
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Kerrang!Mar 9, 2018Admittedly, they do occasionally disappear up their own collective backside, with too much noodling trying your patience, but their ambition and scope show no signs of diminishing. [10 Mar 2018, p.55]
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Mar 9, 2018The first half of Automata (part two arrives in June) is almost too straightforward, offering plenty of what we’ve heard before from these Raleigh space cadets: the folkish plucking and mad noodling, the burps of intergalactic synth, the way a song like “House Organ” closes the safe distance separating Pink Floyd from Cannibal Corpse.
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