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- Summary: The fifth full-length release for the Brooklyn noise rock band led by Oliver Ackerman is its first with drummer Lia Simone Braswell.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 10
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Mixed: 5 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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Apr 13, 2018Equally raw and sleek, Pinned is one of the band's most cohesive albums--even if change is a constant in A Place to Bury Strangers' world, so is the quality of their music.
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MojoApr 9, 2018Joy Division, Suicide and JAMC collide for a post-punk racket: ear-splitting and sublimely desolate. [May 2018, p.98]
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Apr 11, 2018The risks A Place to Bury Strangers take pay off more often than the stranger, near-failed experiments found on "Execution" and "Attitude."
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Apr 9, 2018Pinned isn’t a memorable record; it’s a cacophony of ideas that don’t pan out. While it has bursts of substance, they soon trail off, or are abandoned instantly.
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UncutApr 9, 2018Like the stormy contents of 2015's Transfixiation, songs like "Never Coming Back" have no lack of velocity and ferocity, though APTBS often fall between two poles, being not quite able to deliver memorable songs yet unwilling to let the music dissolve into purer forms if turbulence. [May 2018, p.23]
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Apr 9, 2018They avoid mere imitation, but a sense of aimlessness still floats through the record.
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Apr 17, 2018The imposed restrictions are evident on this album and the effort to overcome them more so. The result is that tracks like 'Execution' and 'Frustrated Operator' sound amateurish, even awkward, in their extreme simplicity with nothing to mask the mundanity of their composition.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Jun 12, 2018
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Nov 7, 2019
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May 16, 2018I mean, its ok but I cant help but feel like this would be a better album if the drummer would shut up.
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