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Dec 21, 2010The rest of King Night is, for the most part, similarly forgettable.
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Dec 14, 2010It's been a hella long time coming and may, ultimately, be about as soul curdling as Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but Salem's first blood King Night is still an enjoyably daft crypt kicker.
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Rave horns echo like WW2 sirens being played on a fucked-up ghetto blaster while the cast of House Of 1000 Corpses do their best Gucci Mane impressions--an interesting, if perhaps slightly contrived, oddity.
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Seedy, feel-bad music. Half-dead, sometimes gorgeous, and willfully dumb beyond repair. Call it alienation porn. Sound awful? Well, it is kind of awful--and rivetingly so.
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With a backstory that includes gas-station hooking and heroin addiction, Michigan electro-extremists Salem are spooky straightaway. Then their quicksand sound sucks you down.
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As the Chicagoan trio defines it on their debut album King Night, witch-house is a curious blend of aesthetics.
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This is not a one-hit wonder situation, or even an album with only one good song. With King Night, Salem exhausts all its resources in a singular moment, which leaves the rest of the record to suffer through its own paralysis and mediocrity.
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Aug 9, 2016
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Oct 2, 2011Prepare yourself for one of the gloomiest albums youâ