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- Summary: The latest release for the Australian experimental metal duo of Takiaya Reed and Sylvie Nehill was produced by Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson.
- Record Label: Invada
- Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Sludge Metal, Noise
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Feb 3, 2021Gas Lit is an important record from an important band. It doesn’t attempt to make things palatable for you, and nor should it. The record is a provocation to a difficult conversation, one that in all honesty shouldn’t really still have to take place in 2021.
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Jan 28, 2021This is instrumental music. Don't look for answers here. The questions speak loudly enough in the chain saw amalgam that forms the nub of the grinding gears.
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Jan 28, 2021A powerful, impressively unconventional, predominantly instrumental suite, linking sludge and doom metal with a desolate reading of jazz.
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Jan 28, 2021Through glowing stasis and solemn ceremony, Divide and Dissolve’s sonics of despair and destruction have been crafted into a remarkably life-affirming experience, and it’s never been more needed.
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Feb 5, 2021Gas Lit’s intent is so immediate, it communicates its significance regardless. Its statement is not just one you can hear or read about. More importantly, it’s one you can feel.
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The WireApr 6, 2021These days, addressing race and gender in doom metal is considered extreme in itself; with Gas Lit, the duo demonstrate that extremity is not just found through deftly executed blastbeats and downtuned riffs, but within the decision to create music that defies categorisation. [Feb 2021, p.46]
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UncutJan 28, 2021Their conceptual hinterland is sometimes more interesting than their clobbering racket, but both are exhilarating in places. [Mar 2021, p.29]
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