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Feb 17, 2015Closer ‘Sea Of Trees’ is as impressive, its restrained riff suddenly smothered by an almighty dirge. It’s a fitting climax to a record that unsettles from start to finish.
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Feb 20, 2015It's a noisy little beast that will leave you feeling somewhat battered, disorientated, but actually, the stink of the corpse of rock has never sounded so good. Just have some paracetamol to hand.
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Mar 6, 2015The group are at their best when melding reverb-soaked, crunchy multiple guitar layers, playing with dynamics atop a kind of jungle-drum thump.
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Feb 23, 2015Despite the luxurious, audible excess, Dying is a masterclass of refrain.
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Feb 20, 2015Like a beacon of light emerging at the outset of Spectres distorted vision, its audacious nature and ever-changing mood perfectly sums up Dying's idiosyncratic nature.
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Feb 11, 2015Rather than having rushed to capture and over-stretch the first flushes of studio exploration with a premature first album, the much-awaited Dying logically extends upon the Spectres’ story so far whilst standing-up as a more mature and ambitious statement in its own right.
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UncutFeb 11, 2015Dying is at once a queasy and exhilarating listen, made more unnerving still by the lyrical fragments about addiction, insomnia and depression that emerge from their clamour. [Mar 2015, p.
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Feb 11, 2015Dying may appear to have a ominous bleakness about it on the surface, but it soon becomes clear that this is an urgent, cathartic and downright exciting listen.
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Feb 23, 2015Dying is a fine debut that suggests Spectres have a lot more to offer.
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MojoMar 19, 2015The first half of this Bristol-based quartet's debut is too idolatrous, but the second plunges into deeper cavernous spaces. [Apr 2015, p.89]
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Q MagazineFeb 11, 2015Not for the faint-hearted then, but there's definitely something to enjoy in its sheer bloody-mindlessness. [Mar 2015, p.117]