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Mar 3, 2017World Eater represents a true stylistic leap. It’s a mammoth collection of songs that carve out a unique niche between apocalyptic anxiety and brief, cathartic bursts of ecstasy--a feeling that should resonate with just about everybody these days.
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Mar 2, 2017The mixture of gentility and dissonance is somehow more unsettling than if Power was to go full on into harsher, angrier territory. The balance that he maintains throughout is what makes the album work.
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Feb 27, 2017It might not hit Dumb Flesh’s dancefloor highs but with decent headphones and a windswept night there’s points on here that are damn near-transcendental, although the damage left might be permanent.
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Mar 13, 2017World Eater does not seem like a doomsday device by design, though. It might sound like one now, but Power leaves open the possibility of it being his darkest transmission before the dawn of a new bright tomorrow.
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Jul 5, 2017World Eater is simultaneously his brightest and darkest album yet, full of walls of noise that could seem forbiddingly remote if not for the way Power consistently brings things back to the human experience.
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Apr 20, 2017It may be Power’s most fatalistic declaration, but also his most engagingly diverse, and his marked exasperations do reflect a not-so-distant dystopia that suitably aligns with today’s societal disconnect.
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Apr 17, 2017World Eater is Power's most eclectic record to date. Dumb Flesh, his second album as Blanck Mass, moved away from the wall of sound of his self-titled debut.
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Mar 28, 2017Taken as a whole, World Eater makes a strange kind of jumbled thematic sense.
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Mar 10, 2017World Eater's focused chaos is some of his finest work yet.
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Mar 6, 2017It’s coherent, exciting, and strong, and it gives you an in-depth idea of how you can articulate experimental soundscapes with rough portions of sound that cause commotion.
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Mar 3, 2017It’s an engaging listen and a jarring template that perfectly captures a disquietened and uneasy era.
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Mar 1, 2017World Eater matches its brutal releases with hope and luminosity. It's a radical, adventurous exploration--and celebration--of the relationship between darkness
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Feb 27, 2017World Eater thrives on the tension between anxiety and peace, nihilism and love. That’s tough stuff to reconcile, but Power attempts it in muscular yet heartfelt fashion. This is an album that will shake you senseless, eat you up and spit you out. And it’s worth every minute.
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MojoFeb 24, 2017An adroit demonstration of Power's aim to reflect today's festering political landscape. [Apr 2017, p.97]
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Q MagazineFeb 24, 2017If World Eater has an ear for the end-times rave-up, it's also not going anywhere gently. [Apr 2017, p.111]
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UncutFeb 24, 2017Its cut-and-paste of totalitarian rhythms, shredded human voices and celestial melodies something like an Aphex Twin remix of Hieronymus Bosch. [Apr 2017, p.25]
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Feb 24, 2017World Eater is ferocious and intense, but it's also thrilling and bristling with life--and it’s these contrasts that make it such a blast to listen to.
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The WireJun 2, 2017Only time will tell which albums will ring out as genuine artefacts and which will be revealed as little more than sound and fury, signifying nothing. [Apr 2017, p.46]
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Mar 6, 2017While there are thrills to be had with the sheer rush of the powerful music contained here, the greater sense of conflict that Power documents in his outward looking opus is the real success of the record.
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Mar 1, 2017World Eater contains some of Power’s most serene work to date.
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Mar 2, 2017Aas Blanck Mass he’s always presented a rawer sound. While his third full-length looks to take that to an extreme, compared to his recent live shows, it falls just slightly flat.
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Mar 2, 2017World Eater is a brutal record, but there’s humanity in it, because Power is drawn to melodies: even at its most pummelling it offers sweet spots and moments of instant gratification.
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Mar 1, 2017Unsurprisingly, it’s not a pretty sound, though there are moments of transcendent grace.
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