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  • Summary: The third full-length release for the Memphis post-punk band is its first as a trio.
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  1. 80
    By harnessing their roots that made their debut LP, We Are NOTS, so celebrated, 3 finds the group adhering to a similar framework with its ten tracks. Nots underpin their hook-driven racket with themes of decaying existence and what it means to reemerge on the other side, liberated and ready for a fight.
  2. Jun 12, 2019
    80
    With this album, NOTS continues to reinvent itself in interesting ways that make sense for them. An experiment, an extension, a logical next step that you didn’t see coming, 3 is a significant move ahead for a band that is always worth watching.
  3. May 15, 2019
    76
    Nots’ third album is a guerilla campaign against surveillance in the service of systemic control. With 3, Nots make fierce rock music equally apt for moshing in solidarity or smashing an Alexa--all forms of control in chaos.
  4. May 15, 2019
    70
    The key to 3 is that the group might be less noisy, but ultimately they're no less weird, and if the album sounds like they're still making sense of their new configuration, their eyes are still on the buzzy prize, and this is a great, challenging, off-center rock album.
  5. Nov 8, 2019
    67
    Clocking in at just half an hour, their third LP streamlines sonically, but the bulldozing remains.
  6. May 15, 2019
    55
    3 sadly feels flat, a shadow of so many stalkers from the past.
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