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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Philadelphia shoegaze band led by Domenic Palermo was produced by Grant Yip.
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- Record Label: Relapse Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Noise-Rock, Shoegaze
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Oct 30, 2020It took three records and 10 years for the band to refine their sound within the recent shoegaze renaissance, but The Great Dismal is without a doubt one of the genre's modern classics.
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Oct 30, 2020With The Great Dismal they’ve exceeded expectations.
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Nov 2, 2020Under Yip's guidance, The Great Dismal trades subtlety for distilled power. When it's quiet, a guitar blast is usually only seconds away. There are a few abrupt edits that are the work of Pro-Tools or some such software. But maybe these are small prices to pay for an album that plays to Palermo's strengths in such a satisfying fashion.
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Nov 3, 2020It has everything one could want from a shoegaze album in 2020, without sounding like their last album that much.
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Oct 30, 2020The Great Dismal, thankfully, is everything it promised to be – it sounds huge, and it sounds miserable.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 8, 2020Despite all the gloom, this is a deeply enjoyable album. [Jan 2021, p.87]
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Oct 30, 2020All of which is to say that ‘The Great Dismal’ sounds big, and far grander in scope than anything the four-piece have done before. ... There are points, however, where the record gets bogged down under its own weight, where a wave of noise subsides without doing any damage.
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