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Sep 23, 2016It makes for an exhausting and engrossing listen, and ultimately can’t be anything but a life-affirming statement.
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Sep 21, 2016For those who have paid close attention to the band’s evolution, it seemed inevitable that he would get to this point. Accordingly, A Corpse Wired for Sound feels like a culmination.
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Sep 30, 2016It’s a beautiful album, and it’s the sound of a band realising they can finally do anything they want with sound.
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Sep 30, 2016A Corpse Wired For Sound meanders a little too much at times, with every track stretching beyond the four minute mark, but overall it feels a successful rebirth which won't fail to engage live audiences.
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Sep 23, 2016A surgical dissection of a full decade of influence, Merchandise pay homage to their upbringing without ever breaking eye contact with the sprawling future set ahead of them.
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Sep 22, 2016It's a tough act to consistently maintain, but they've delivered another artful, well-crafted release.
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Sep 21, 2016If it sounds close to daft on paper, Merchandise have the ingenuity to make it work, and so it is with this fine album.
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Sep 21, 2016A Corpse Wired for Sound is still distinctively a Merchandise album, even though it’s a relative departure from their previous work. It definitely sounds a lot lonelier than its predecessors, though, as if Merchandise have become isolated by their own intelligence.
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Dec 6, 2016This album is not great as background music, because its dark emotion can be oppressive. However, it's a record full of detail.
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Sep 26, 2016Corpse overcomes its moments, due in part to concision and earnest songwriting.
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Q MagazineSep 23, 2016It veers back to the more melancholy, washed-out experimentalism of their first records, while occasionally seeking to beak new territory. [Nov 2016, p.111]
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UncutSep 21, 2016Carson Cox's over-emotive delivery and a bombastic arrangement tip the album's power-ballad finale, "I Will Not Sleep Here," into Night Ranger Territory. Thankfully, the trio is more careful about its point of reference elsewhere. [Oct 2016, p.35]
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Mar 15, 2017While closer "My Dream Is Yours" picks up the pace, the album pulses inward and outward, meditative, trapped in one place.
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Sep 23, 2016The band have retreated back to their pre-4AD line-up and reined in the overtly pop instincts of After the End, instead content to needle at a single idea in the hope of coaxing something memorable.
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Sep 22, 2016It starts strong: the aforementioned song is has the melancholic chaos of the Smiths’ at their stormiest, but what follows is less direct and full of dirge.