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- Summary: This is the debut full-length album for the Michigan trio led by John Holland.
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- Record Label: Iamsound
- Genre(s): Electronic, Electronica, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 15 out of 22
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Mixed: 7 out of 22
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Negative: 0 out of 22
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By creating a world so comic-book vivid, each track stands and walks in its own desolate, saturnine world. But it's a world where the dead want to be alive and the alive would rather be dead. The creation of warped minds, Salem just made a monster.
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Oct 22, 2010With less vocals, more warp and looser production, it's a witchier, Midwestern answer to its London, dub-driven predecessors.
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Q MagazineExhilarating end-of-days from the US trio. [Oct. 2010, p. 113]
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Mar 17, 2011They might be unreliable performers, but their studio work is forward-thinking and beautiful in an oddly satisfying, downtrodden way.
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King Night, accordingly, finds Salem pushing their sound far enough to create artistic distance from the rest of the pack.
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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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As the Chicagoan trio defines it on their debut album King Night, witch-house is a curious blend of aesthetics.
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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Oct 2, 2011Prepare yourself for one of the gloomiest albums youâ
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Oct 10, 2010
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Aug 9, 2016
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Oct 31, 2010
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