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- Summary: The seventh full-length release for the Norwegian noise rock band includes contributions from Kvelertak’s Erlend Hjelvik, Andrew Liles, Stephen O’Malley, Karin Park, and Ted Parsons.
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- Record Label: Fysisk Format
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Mar 3, 2016It could easily have fallen apart under the weight of the assembled egos, its car crash of dramatic themes or even just been doomed by the epic centrepiece of the album--the10-minute "Faustus"--but it doesn’t. The album works. And I daresay, it’s a damn sight more successful take on life, war, death and re-birth than Einsturzende Neubauten’s First World War-inspired album Lament.
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Mar 2, 2016Årabrot are still unhinged. There’s still the sense that this is a dangerous band.... However, here we also see a side of Årabrot that’s ever more suitable for the fading, decaying grandeur that surrounds all of us: one that is increasingly sonically diverse and eloquent.
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Mar 2, 2016Those familiar with the older Årabrot will find much to admire here, and this is far from a crossover album, but in terms of scope both sonically, lyrically and artistically, it’s perhaps the defining moment of the band so far.
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The WireMar 8, 2016On The Gospel, they're at their weirdest and best. [Feb 2016, p.48]
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Mar 2, 2016It's generally noisy and gnarly, variously downtuned or detuned and proud of its metallic heft; if you've encountered Årabrot in the past, this will be expected. It also has a dark, velveteen grace which feels derived from both pop and cabaret songwriting, and while previous records by the band have hinted at this tendency, here they've embraced it to a far greater degree than before.
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UncutMar 2, 2016With its wild swings between pummelling dirges and more symphonic exercises in doom-mongering, seventh album, The Gospel, evokes the more artistically ambitious but no less menacing likes of Killing Joke and Swans. [Apr 2016, p.69]
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