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Jun 17, 2014Deep Fantasy is an exceptionally produced collection--really, it’s probably the finest recording job you’ll hear on a rock album this year.
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Jun 27, 2014With so many amazing tracks on tap, it's hard to single out which is deserving of repeated listens because they all are.
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Jun 16, 2014Boasting a bigger sound with better songwriting, Deep Fantasy pulls no punches, yet still emerges as White Lung's boldest and most accessible album to date.
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Jun 17, 2014This is principled music, not doctrine, and while inspired by its surroundings, it’s defined by its leader making bracing art.
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MagnetJun 18, 2014Sorry earned White Lung an audience; on Deep Fantasy, the band commands it. [No. 110, p.61]
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Jun 17, 2014White Lung demand attention, engaging heart-to-heart conversations while simultaneously rioting.
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Jun 16, 2014So Deep Fantasy works as ten lithe, wiry punk ragers, ten howls into our personal nothingness. It works very well as that. But it's more.
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Jun 16, 2014Deep Fantasy is exhausting, cathartic and a little scary.
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Jun 12, 2014It's the group's ability to run the punk gamut that makes Deep Fantasy their most complete album yet.
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Jun 12, 2014hite Lung sound absolutely enormous on Deep Fantasy, and it's a testament to their stamina and technical abilities that they just do not let up on the pace.
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Alternative PressJun 11, 2014It's 22 minutes of thoughtful, intricately expressed vexation like never before. [Jul 2014, p.103]
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Jun 11, 2014There is no slack, no flab and nothing that even comes close to pretension; the sharp sound and honesty come totally naturally.
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Jun 11, 2014This is twenty seven minutes of searing punk rock, blistering guitars, brilliant singing, incredible drumming and there’s never a dull moment or weak point.
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Jun 17, 2014It’s rare that a record holds your attention from start to finish, but because Deep Fantasy is undiluted, its finest qualities are glowingly apparent.
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Under The RadarSep 5, 2014This is an album with a firm grip on the general unfairness of reality, particularly women. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.107]
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Jun 23, 2014White Lung’s brutally efficient ways can feel a bit limited on Deep Fantasy, and it’s a fair enough to wonder how far White Lung can push itself into any new directions.
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Jun 16, 2014Her performances evoke all the anger and passion of the alt-punk heroes that inform White Lung's sound, but surpass many of them when it comes to control or the incredible clarity in her spitting, snarling delivery.
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Jun 16, 2014As passion-packed as her visceral diatribes are, they suffer through being frustratingly free of dynamics.
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Jun 11, 2014At times, the songs bleed together almost to the point of indistinction, but crystal-clear production makes this thunderous album well worth seeking out, even for those who wouldn't be caught dead near a circle pit.
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Jun 17, 2014With 10 blazing tracks averaging about two minutes each, the Vancouver band’s distinct brand of melodic punk might be too much to take, were it not for Mish Way’s cool command of the mic.
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Jul 17, 2014Deep Fantasy falls short of its predecessor's Hellraiser hooks, but only by degrees of fuck-and-run whiplash.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 28
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Mixed: 5 out of 28
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Negative: 2 out of 28
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