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- Summary: The seventh full-length release for the San Francisco experimental rock band is its first in a decade.
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- Record Label: Hydra Head
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal
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May 11, 2017Thin Black Duke should be regarded as a genuinely innovative and exciting piece of art.
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May 25, 2017Everything here is on point; every single element is executed with a stupefying mastery. Soaring strings, luxurious French horn, jangled distortion and purgative, unhinged vocals; all these things fuse together with glorious consequences. Utterly exceptional.
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May 11, 2017Ultimately, Oxbow's seventh full-length is an incredible, cinematic experience which is at once rewarding and terrifying.
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Jun 7, 2017By rights no group should be peaking after 30 years of making music together, yet that is the situation in which Oxbow find themselves. Will they ever transcend Thin Black Duke? Such are the ideas and attention to detail on this record, only a fool would bet against them.
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Jul 6, 2017The Thin Black Duke isn’t their finest album--for my money, that’d have to be 1995’s Steve Albini-produced Let Me Be A Woman--but it’s still one of the most thrilling, galvanising records I’ve heard in recent months.
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The WireAug 8, 2017The record is a meditation on masculinity, both lyrically and musically. But it is a sombre, barely lustful masculinity that growls and shrieks and howls and tells stories here. [May 2017, p.52]
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May 11, 2017It may not be their definitive show of force, but it’s a dazzling spectacle nonetheless.
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