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Alternative PressThey've evolved into a leaner and meaner rock machine. [March 2003, p.98]
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BlenderThere's an intensity here that's hard to resist. [#14, p.142]
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This is big rock, powerful, aggressive, and impeccably played and produced.
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The band's grasp of dynamics, both musical and emotional, has deepened, resulting in Long Knives, their most nuanced album yet, with a much more understated approach than on past efforts.
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The conversational rawness that drove the previous albums is gone, and the band loses something as a result.
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What Rainer Maria have lost in scope and audacity they have perhaps gained in sheer accessible melodicism and urgency on Long Knives Drawn.
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There's a lot to be said for the more refined Rainer Maria.