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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 its 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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