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Jun 4, 2013A surprisingly fun album in Sister Faith, in which Coliseum channel their metal past while creating their punk present.
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May 30, 2013Metallic hardcore still gallops in short, sharp, steely blasts on a pair of two-minute openers, but Nineties grunge-dripping Seaweed now coats Ryan Patterson's punk heroes.
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Kerrang!May 17, 2013This is the sound of Coliseum growing up without getting old and boring. [27 Apr 2013, p.54]
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May 1, 2013With Sister Faith, their fourth album in nine years, Coliseum offers up its most palatable set of tunes yet, a continuation of the dirty-pop paradigms set in place by 2010’s House With A Curse, and the Parasites EP released the following year.
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May 1, 2013Sister Faith radiates right from the first listen, and this record has picked up where House with a Curse left off back in 2010.
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Alternative PressApr 30, 2013Sister Faith is rich with engaging depth and an inventive accessibility that should put the band on the radar of independent music lovers everywhere. [May 2013, p.88]
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Apr 30, 2013It’s clear Patterson put a lot of thought into Sister Faith, but a looser hand on the reins might have allowed for a more precarious, thrillingly unstable balance between post-hardcore and the world beyond.
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Apr 30, 2013What's really impressive, though, isn't that the band can do spacious or aggressive or psychedelic, it's that they can somehow find a way to cram it all into one album and make it work without feeling muddled or diminished in any way.
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Apr 30, 2013At times, these songs go on for a bit too long. A bigger obstacle is their lack of variety. But ultimately, these complaints are for an album packed with huge hooks, which all sound great when you play them really loud.
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Apr 30, 2013Sister Faith may not be entirely consistent, yet in the long run it proves way more heartfelt and genuinely bruised than a typical hardcore punk offering.
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