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Aug 31, 2015Showcasing the very best of Archambault’s lyrics and the band’s musicianship while channeling more post-rock-esque breaks along with diverse shifts in pacing and tone into their brand of hardcore, Abandoned is undoubtedly the essential Defeater release and gold-standard for hardcore in 2015.
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Alternative PressAug 27, 2015It's truly an incredible piece of work that excavates the very core of human existence. [Sep 2015, p.95]
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Sep 1, 2015Abandoned, amid its mid-tempo hardcore aggression, is more introspective and focuses on personal torment and demons. It sinks its teeth into you, very deeply.
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Kerrang!Aug 27, 2015For an album about broken faith, this should convert a lot of new listeners. [29 Aug 2015, p.52]
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Sep 14, 2015Occasionally deploying hackneyed lines of faith-versus-vice strife, the band risks veering too far into the general, relying on rhythmic and timbral rawness to put more weight into the words. But within the glimpses of experience, one finds embryonic narrative pulses colored by idiosyncratic torment.
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Aug 27, 2015It's a diverse mixture of sounds delivered in a cohesive and well-arranged package.
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Aug 27, 2015Bookended by a pair of moody cuts replete with intoned prayers spoken in the background, Abandoned plays to the severity of the Catholic faith, and if Defeater's thematic tendencies have begun to wear a bit thin, they still manage to pack a pretty big punch on a musical level.