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- Summary: Ben Greenberg and Michael Berdan add drummer Greg Foxfor for the band's third full-length release.
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- Record Label: Sacred Bones
- Genre(s): Industrial, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Noise-Rock
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Aug 20, 2018While touching briefly on new ground, The Long Walk is generally what you’d expect it to be, but with minor variations alongside the engrossing quality that make Uniform so distinct to begin with. It’s nothing too far off from Uniform’s standard layout, but right now it shows them precisely where they should be as a young band.
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The WireAug 28, 2018What emerges is a futuristic and dystopian vision, but it’s also something primal. There’s a human pulse, trapped in the heart of all the noise. You hold your breath and wait for it to collapse, and for the carbine rifles to come. [Sep 2018, p.57]
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Aug 29, 2018Yet for all its controlled chaos, The Long Walk is Uniform’s most stylistically consistent record.
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Aug 20, 2018Berdan deals with organized religion and his personal conflict of identifying as a Catholic but being repulsed by the bigotry, repression, and hateful acts committed in the name of religion. It isn't quite clear if he comes to a resolution, or if that's even possible. Regardless, The Long Walk is some of Uniform's most challenging, disrupting work yet.
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Aug 20, 2018It is a story set in a dystopian, post-humanist society and one that vocalist Michael Berdan appreciates due to its cynicism. In the same respect Uniform shed light to the ugly side of the human psyche, and while they do so in a very explicit and expressive way, it feels like there is still much more they can dig up to the surface.
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Aug 20, 2018Berdan does tap into a powerful subject matter--an exercise in looking at the past to improve his moral character--except that he juxtaposes it with stifling, and undercooked, sheets of noise. It's a step back for a duo who were inching closer toward their definitive statement.
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Aug 20, 2018Where Wake in Fright felt lean and energetic, The Long Walk is bloated and tired, not so much a fulfilling, purposeful exercise as a slow crawl to nowhere in particular.
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