- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Release Date: Jun 8, 2004
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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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The WireVoyeurs of the disintegration of the human condition will be able to gorge on vicarious thrills to their black heart's content. [#246, p.62]
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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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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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The effort that Cogleton and his band have put into God Bless Your Black Heart is impossible to ignore.
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Alternative PressAt times, borders on unlistenable. [Nov 2004, p.146]
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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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[Congleton's] studio wizardry shows in the bolder array of sounds he's plundered and the crispness with which they're delivered, while his improved songwriting shines through in bolder arrangements and a tighter instrumental focus.
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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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johnbApr 30, 2005best album ever!
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tinahOct 15, 2004brilliant