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- Summary: This is the second full length release for the Portland, Oregon-based post-punk band.
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- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Dec 21, 2018With an immediate appeal and an evocative and nervous twitch throughout, Mating Surfaces maintains a gratifying pace, balancing energy and peculiarity throughout its 29-minute runtime. ... They manage to be playful without being poppy, succeeding in this case where a lot of modern punk rock fails.
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Dec 21, 2018Lithics have made what is surely one of the most sincerely bracing albums of the year.
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Dec 21, 2018These songs make no concessions to your serenity. They are prickly and aggressive and a-melodic. In a world geared towards bland, uneventful spotify-core, Mating Surfaces grabs you by the short hairs and shakes you. It will not be entirely pleasant, but it is absolutely necessary.
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Dec 21, 2018This is difficult, obstinate music that grows in potency with every listen--it should just come with some kind of health warning.