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Feb 17, 2016They’re a thrilling pair Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny], giving each other space to stretch out but staying close to cohere. Corsano matches the energy of each with an enviable malleability, staying closer to Bishop than a shadow, then turning around to throw cars, houses, and oil tankers into Chasny’s twisters.
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UncutFeb 12, 2016A groovy, engaging listen. [Mar 2016, p.83]
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Feb 12, 2016An extremely welcome return for Rangda, The Heretic’s Bargain finds the fanciful jam wranglers at the peak of their powers.
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Feb 19, 2016The Heretic’s Bargain [is] their most cohesive record to date, and suggests that it will likely be bested on that count by the next one.
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MagnetFeb 12, 2016The trio's execution is impressive, but the music is so tightly wound that it engenders a yearning for escape. [No. 128, p.61]
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Feb 22, 2016The loudest bits of noise here excite, but they aren’t quite as affecting as the space they leave behind. It’s in that space that the album does most of its great work, which is how this trio has managed to follow two fascinating record with another big step forward.
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Feb 19, 2016The album ends up being more sprawling than it initially seems, but no less triumphant.
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The WireFeb 18, 2016On the third album by Bishop's trio with drummer Chris Corsano and guitarist Ben Chasny, the [Middle Eastern] influence is more explicit than ever.... "Spiro Agnew" brings the intercultural connection full circle, with an extravagant strut that calls to mind the grand drama that Turkish guitar hero and pioneer of saz rock Erkin Koray brought to his fuzzed out interpretations of lachrymose Arabesque ballads. [Feb 2016, p.58]
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Feb 16, 2016For all the heroics on display here, though, it sometimes sounds as though these three hyper-prolific virtuosos are--believe it or not--resting in something of a comfort zone. They've increased their compositional and improvisational fortitude as a unit, but they're still wandering the same general aural territory as Rangda (or Sun City Girls or Chasny's Comets On Fire).
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Feb 22, 2016This is a very good album, sure, but it adds not so much to the Rangda catalogue.
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Feb 12, 2016All three are considerable technicians and practice refreshing restraint; both in their playing (intricate but not showy) and their sound (sharp and dry, with few effects). The result, however, can feel like a bit of an academic exercise at times – music to be admired rather than really inhabited.