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To Realize is an album that will certainly reward those willing to give in to the band's grand design.
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The result is comfortably atonal--a headphones listen that's difficult but ultimately more haunting.
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To Realize is a cool, noir-ish fusion of several disparate styles blended together to create a sonic vision that expresses a great sense of growth in one of the most promising acts the West Coast has to offer.
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Under The RadarThe D.I.Y. heroes cleave their influences with the subtlety of butchers. [Holiday, 2009, p.80]
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To Realize refreshingly errs on the side of taking on too much new territory, and gives post-punk bands, noise ghouls, and psychedelic droners alike something to envy.
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To Realize, the superb sophomore full-length from the band, finds them wholly embracing what was once merely hinted at.
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Despite the album's relentless and, at times, irritating drone and distortion, To Realize is not a static listen--just unforgivably moody.
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It's always great to see a band showcase all of their strengths but when you can take everyone by surprise it's going to require just that much more skill.
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There is a certain rhythm that begins to form with constantly being pulled along and feeling as though this will be the moment everything crescendos. Prepare yourself To Realize presents a Sisyphus-esque journey that can be exhausting.
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Crafting spacious soundscapes, taking droney vision quests into '70s psychedelia, and offering pleasantly subdued vocals, the Oakland trio appears to have found solid footing as a band of new-school doom-rock warriors.