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Mar 13, 2013Metz locates a bittersweet spot between post-punk calculation and garage-rock urgency.
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Dec 12, 2012Only when they tip the 'dumb' into an absurdism, in bouts of monotony or mindlessly devolved weirdness, do Metz sound anything like punk, or indeed art. Herein lies the retardation.
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Kerrang!Dec 10, 2012Brilliant: like all the best bands in the world playing through one broken amp at maximum volume. [3 Nov 2012, p.53]
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Nov 27, 2012For all its abrasion and denatured noise, Metz isn't a statement of nihilism or finality; it's a bright, exploratory scalpel making the first of hopefully many incisions.
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Nov 1, 2012You can imagine, and probably relate, to the monotony and helpless angst that attacks us when we're a certain age, going through certain ritualistic processes of life. So imagine this record as the soundtrack to those feelings, and how liberating, not only that would have felt then, but does feel now.
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Oct 24, 2012Metz [have] easily made one of the finest and most ferocious punk albums in years on this sledgehammer of a debut.
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Oct 18, 2012Undeniably one of my favorite albums of the year, METZ shines brightly, like a Molotov cocktail at the moment of impact.
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Oct 18, 2012This is an album that sounds fresh despite having its roots firmly planted in the post-hardcore/pre-grunge era.
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Oct 16, 2012On its self-titled debut, the post-punk trio remarkably bottles the sound of a live show.
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Oct 16, 2012METZ is, in short, an almost-amazing album, an album of extremely well built and executed rock songs undone by a production that all too often calls attention to itself.
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Oct 16, 2012The sonic corruption and disquieting sense of dread are accomplished with pure muscle alone. But instead of keeping this mindset out in the open, Metz just sweat it out over thirty jarring minutes.
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Oct 11, 2012Metz make you want to rock and then roll and then rock a bit more. By the end of this album's 30 boisterous minutes you'll feel absolutely exhausted.
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MagnetOct 10, 2012Not since the Men dropped Leave Home last summer has a young band made an album of pure, hard-edged rock this good or entertainingly lacerating. [No. 92, p.56]
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Oct 10, 2012There's a surface graininess that amplifies the corrosive qualities of the band's sound and the strep-throat rawness of Edkins' voice, but also serves to accentuate some of the more surprising elements in the mix.
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Oct 10, 2012These are tightly constructed songs that sledgehammer a jagged line between the Pixies' inventive pop clamor and the hazy beauty of another clever noise purveyor deserving of the all-caps treatment, HEALTH.
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Oct 9, 2012Nirvana are actually a better comparison, not so much for the sonic similarities (though they are certainly there if you want to make them), but for METZ's ability to channel primal screams and squelching guitars into hook-laden earworms.
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Oct 9, 2012It's a real relief, then, to hear METZ's self-titled debut, a tight set of 10 gut-punch punk songs that, in 30 minutes, delivers the type of catharsis we've been lacking.
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Oct 9, 2012Thirty minutes of METZ feels more like hard work than fun playtimes, and the sameness of the venture underscores the futility of whatever it is they're trying to accomplish, which falls somewhere between "artist defending bowel movement on a gallery floor" and "third demo tape by an up-and-coming new band."
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Oct 8, 2012Blood simple and bloody minded, their half-hour self-titled debut is a welcome lurch straight for the jugular.
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Oct 8, 2012METZ is pulverizing, but in an artistic, superior way; the Canada-based trio balance noise, aggression and tact expertly.
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Oct 8, 2012The Toronto trio is just a ball of heavy genres, lumping together noise rock, post-punk, hardcore, no wave, or any style that might punish a pair of eardrums.
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Oct 8, 2012On Record, they bring a sharpened tune-smithery to their noise-punk.
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Oct 8, 2012Metz deliver the same righteous anger that informed much of their favourite music in the early '90s.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 33
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Mixed: 8 out of 33
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Negative: 2 out of 33
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