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- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Release Date: Jun 8, 2004
- Summary: The Texas noise-rock trio led by John Congleton returns with a third LP.
- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Experimental
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Positive: 7 out of 9
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Mixed: 2 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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God Bless Your Black Heart is one of the best noise rock records in recent memory – and not in the sense that it’s bafflingly original, but in that the Paper Chase are amazingly good at what they do.
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The effort that Cogleton and his band have put into God Bless Your Black Heart is impossible to ignore.
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The Paper Chase have delivered one of the more complex, intricately-arranged productions in the history of angst rock, a sort of bastard offspring of Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine and Cursive's "Butcher the Song".
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Twisted, mangled, and deeply submerged under the layers of bewitching muck are brilliant melodies with sonorous strings hidden between double-tracked guitars and gigantic, mesmerizing choruses.
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Seemingly taking its cue from Congleton's willfully bizarre screaming, the band favors atonalism and discordance in its cobbled-together brand of mighty-uptighty protest rock.
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Sometimes erstwhile obsessiveness can lead to revelation, but beyond the fancy engineering, I don't see much of that here.
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Alternative PressAt times, borders on unlistenable. [Nov 2004, p.146]
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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tinahOct 15, 2004brilliant
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johnbApr 30, 2005best album ever!
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