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  • Artist(s): Tristan Shone
  • Summary: The latest full-length release for Tristan Shone's Author & Punisher features contributions from Tool's Justin Chancellor, Danny Carey, and Vytear.
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  • Record Label: Relapse Records
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Industrial, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Industrial Metal
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  1. 80
    There’s an intelligence wrapped in the machinery here. This is cyborg music driven by metal fingers, but the human heart is still intact.
  2. The Wire
    Mar 30, 2022
    80
    While several guests appear on the album – Tool’s drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, among others – Krüller feels gorgeously desolate, befitting a world in a dire state. [Mar 2022, p.42]
  3. 80
    Author & Punisher’s Krüller is a sonic purge that rages and recoils in equal measure, enhanced by collaboration, but with Shone remaining the master of ceremonies of his distinctive noise.
  4. Feb 17, 2022
    80
    Ultimately, though, Krüller is best experienced not in its individual segments but as an overwhelming whole. The meld of muscle and mechanisation still demands that listeners hand themselves over entirely. So stay plugged in through the epic title-track’s spiral down into an inevitable acid ending and you’ll be haunted by the ghosts in this machine.
  5. Feb 16, 2022
    74
    If Krüller is warmed by a nostalgic human past, it also bears the chill of a posthuman future where the machines grind on without us, an intimation that seeps from his music like a corrosive fluid and lends these songs a bitter, heroic weight.
  6. Feb 16, 2022
    70
    Krüller is one of the most accessible-sounding Author & Punisher releases, but it's still vast and uncompromising.
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