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Sep 12, 2016It’s an album that needs the thick-skin its title connotes to listen--you won’t emerge from it feeling joyous, but you will emerge seeing a truth that will deeply unsettle.
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Aug 18, 2016An album that’s disorienting at its catchiest, harrowing at its ugliest, and more than willing to run both of those modes at the same time.
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Aug 29, 2016Callus is the sound of someone exorcising their demons with nothing but a few pieces of gear and his own snarling weapon of a voice--and growing stronger for it.
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Aug 17, 2016Callus is a harrowing experience, not for the faint of heart. It's more of a preach than a rap, at times more post-rock than hip-hop, the overall experience something akin to hearing slam poetry at knifepoint.
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Aug 16, 2016Callus is the most challenging, confrontational Gonjasufi record yet, and it's also his most daring work.
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Sep 1, 2016It's the kind of record that needs to be approached in increments, but the rewards reveal themselves when given the patience and time that Callus deserves.
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Aug 22, 2016With the exception of Krishna Punk and Devils, the album lacks drive, and at 19 tracks it’s easy to lose focus while listening.
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Aug 18, 2016It’s unflinching, unapologetic and at times bordering on unlistenable. But it’s a bold sonic statement that brutally conveys its intended message. In this, Callus proves a success.
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Q MagazineAug 16, 2016A listening experience every bit as intense and idiosyncratic as Ecks himself. [Sep. 2016, p.106]
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MojoAug 16, 2016It's an appropriately trying listen, far removed from 2010's relatively mannered debut. [Sep 2016, p.92]
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UncutAug 16, 2016Sometimes it makes sense. A lot of the time, it doesn't. [Sep 2016, p.74]
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Aug 18, 2016Unfortunately, Gonjasufi's attempt to turn his solidarity with the angry and the dispossessed into a musical concept is too blandly realized to be convincing.