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May 4, 2017In.ter a.li.a is better than we dreamed it could be. Prepare to fall in love all over again.
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Kerrang!May 11, 2017Across 11 tracks In•ter a•li•a never loses focus and never takes the easy options, offering fractured anthems for fractured times. [6 May 2017, p.50]
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May 9, 2017in•ter a•li•a is the opposite of being phoned in.
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May 9, 2017Reinvigorated after a so-so initial comeback in 2012, and with their notorious fire burning once again, ‘in•ter a•li•a’ sees At The Drive In returning with an album that’s worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder alongside their revered back catalogue.
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May 5, 2017in•ter a•li•a isn’t about capturing a zeitgeist as much as it is about jumpstarting some urgency in a rock scene that desperately needs more wild abandon and psychic plasma.
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May 4, 2017In places the production lacks the spark that Ross Robinson brought to Relationship of Command, but nonetheless, Inter Alia is a blistering return to form.
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Apr 28, 2017Noticeably less refined than the aforementioned masterpiece, ‘Pendulum In A Peasant Dress’, ‘Tilting At The Univendor’ and ‘Torrentially Cutshaw’ are part of a breathlessly jagged, abrasive, unruly and punk as fuck whole.
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Q MagazineApr 26, 2017At The Drive-In's astringent, scouring return doesn't feel so much like a blast from the past, as one aimed right at the heart of the present. [Jun 2017, p.108]
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MojoApr 26, 2017At the heart of Continuum and Incurably innocent are untamed pop melodies that writhe like snapped power-lines, while berserk closer Hostage Stamps is a glorious collision of Jane's Addiction, Minor Threat and Mahavishnu Orchestra. [Jun 2017, p.91]
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May 3, 2017in•ter a•li•a is frankly as promising an album as we can hope to expect from a group of guys who set the bar and then ran away from it 17 years back.
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Apr 26, 2017“No Wolf Like The Present” tips off the festivities with loads of frenetic energy, but it never leaves reality, and that goes for the rest of the album. Oddly enough, this restraint warrants some of the record’s finest moments, and when the Texas rockers aren’t twisting and distorting their music like a rubber band, they get lost in the ether.
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Jun 19, 2017In•ter a•li•a is a blistering return for the band; a record of thrilling paranoia, agitated by brutal, scissoring guitar riffs and slashing vocals.
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May 15, 2017Now older and wiser, they're much better prepared to nurture their blaze than before. All it needed was a little room to breathe.
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May 5, 2017If I hadn't heard ROC, this album would have probably gotten a half-star more, but as it stands it's just above decent.
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May 4, 2017For the most part, In•ter a•li•a is content to exist as a barrage--add ‘Call Broken Arrow’ to the ‘confirmed belter’ list--and almost never strays into more experimental territory as explored by The Mars Volta. There is one sort-of exception, however, in the form of ‘Ghost-Tape No. 9.’
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UncutApr 26, 2017While it might have played better in 2003, it's a welcome return regardless. [Jun 2017, p.23]
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May 19, 2017What makes that record sound so left-field is Cedric’s all over the place vocals and Ross Robinson’s infamously loud production.
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