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Jun 2, 2015Grievances is yet another remarkable record from one of the UK’s most consistently remarkable underground bands.
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Jun 10, 2015With Grievances, Rolo Tomassi seem ready to take their first step onto the stage in front of a wider audience.
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Jun 8, 2015This is an album that sits somewhere between Lynch and Lucifer, ethereal in its softer moments and utterly savage at its loudest.
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Jul 13, 2015With Grievances Rolo Tomassi truly have mastered the creation of such a hybrid, heightening their melodies and anthemic qualities whilst retaining their brutality and technical prowess within the contours of a finely honed album sequence.
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Kerrang!Jun 3, 2015This is still a challenging listen that churns and rages exactly where it needs to. [30 May 2015, p.52]
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Q MagazineJun 2, 2015A black-metal-inspired collection of songs equally beautiful, if largely less accessible to the casual listener. [Jul 2015, p.112]
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Jun 2, 2015No doubt some old fans will continue to decry this latest chapter in Rolo Tomassi’s seemingly endless search to scratch their inner itch, but make no mistake; this is a confident return to form.
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Jun 2, 2015The record’s barrage of barrelling noise is linked by stuffy interludes of piano (‘Prelude III’) and strings (‘Chandelier Shiver’), meaning the quintet only narrowly avoid coming off as pretentious. But when Eva sings “I held the arrows/I pulled the strings” on calm, clear-headed highlight ‘Opalescent’, the emotional strength at the heart of Rolo Tomassi shines through.