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Mar 15, 2017Nothing Feels Natural picks up where Priests last left us, poking holes in the American dream, aggressive and accusatory, where both the band and listener aren't safe from Priests' rage.
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Feb 10, 2017It sounds fully formed and wickedly confident, the work of four people who had to get a few things off their chest.
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Feb 1, 2017The leap in range and ambition from their 2015 EP Bodies and Control and Money and Power is huge: There hasn’t been a punk debut this certain and poised since Savages’ Silence Yourself.
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Jun 28, 2017“Suck” is a fun funk-inspired dance reminiscent of early Blondie, but doesn’t match the overall mood of the record, leading it to sound out of place. Nonetheless, Nothing Feels Natural is a great debut from an exciting band; arguably the best debut of the year.
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Feb 3, 2017Like Bodies and Control and Money and Power, the LP thrives on an economy of force and purpose.
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May 9, 2017Here [on the title track] and on the rest of Nothing Feels Natural, the hunger, vitality, and intelligence coursing through these songs feel timeless as well as timely.
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Jan 27, 2017In a genre where “authenticity” is supposedly located in stripped-down effortless amateurism, Priests is at their most authentic when they’re using performance to challenge themselves and their audience.
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Jan 25, 2017The band only falters when they lean on stock symbols, as on the materialist-baiting "Pink White House." If those lyrics sound lazy, it's only because Nothing Feels Natural is so taut and particular otherwise.
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Jan 30, 2017The album sincerely embraces every dark corner of the brain, not just the ones that are easiest to sum up. Nothing Feels Natural is daring, sincere, and intimate, somehow more universal in its particularity.
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Jan 25, 2017Their album shows them expanding both their sound and their lyrical vision. [Jan - Mar 2017, p.67]
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Feb 13, 2017Both cynical and biting, Nothing Feels Natural is a timely and involving call to arms that promises great things from Priests sooner rather than later.
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Jan 25, 2017The lyrics are complex, but close inspection illuminates the poetry within.
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Jan 25, 2017Where Nothing Feels Natural suffers is in the R&D department. Many of the ideas only make a couple of appearances. ... Still, there’s quite a lot to like here, and it’s mostly due to Greer--the speak-sing existentialism of ‘No Big Bang’, the Everything Goes Wrong-era Vivian Girls homage on ‘Nothing Feels Natural’, the ragged heartbeat of ‘Appropriate’.
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Positive: 30 out of 39
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Mixed: 7 out of 39
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Negative: 2 out of 39
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Apr 14, 2017
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Feb 28, 2017
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Nov 28, 2021sounds fully formed and wickedly confident, the work of four people who had to get a few things off their chest.