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MagnetApr 15, 2016No One Deserves Happiness is even better [than One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache]. [No. 130, p.53]
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Mar 15, 2016In declining to meet expectations, the Body have gotten free of the potential pigeonholing that plagues both them and the genre at large, providing something so utterly resigned, hopeless and, above all, barren; the most exciting bits on No One end up heightening the frustration and disappointment we crave more and more with each listen.
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Mar 15, 2016Despite the misery that inspires and thrives within their suffocating work, the band shows a remarkable sense of vitality, inspiring to longtime and new fans alike.
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Mar 25, 2016As gross as The Body set out to make No One Deserves Happiness, it is Wolpert’s presence that actually provides it with an element of hope. She’s like a flower in a bomb crater, and in a weird way, The Body might just have made one of the most hopeful pop albums ever.
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The WireMar 22, 2016No One Deserves Happiness alternates between bleak and industrialised grindcore and a powerful poetic presence that effectively conveys a sense of loss. [Apr 2016, p.46]
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Mar 16, 2016No matter how harrowing King's cries become, how punitive the increasingly industrial percussion grows, or how profound the agony of the textured sound becomes, it's these little moments of silvery beauty that make No One Deserves Happiness transcendent and unbearable. Settle in and endure.
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Mar 15, 2016Even with the album's graceful inclinations, it still sounds as bleak its title, but the way the Body combine disparate components into their brand of mutilated "gross pop" is truly fascinating.
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Mar 15, 2016The Body has always been obsessed with feelings of consuming futility, and in kicking free of conventional structures and following Wolpert's lead, they've come closer than ever to their truest selves on record.
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Mar 25, 2016The experience is nothing less than fully immersive by the time we’ve made it through “Shelter Is Illusory,” the closest the album gets to true pop (aside from Armstrong’s co-written “Adamah”), replete with a gorgeous quasi-operatic upward-searching chorus from Armstrong and a keening processed-strings backing.
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Mar 21, 2016The album is not always as revolutionary a turn as the “grossest pop album” conceit might suggest, but mostly this is a good thing.
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Mar 18, 2016The Body gracefully don't try to solve the zeitgeist of human suffering one way or the other, but they surely have retained their expert status at describing its pitfalls.
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Under The RadarMar 15, 2016Chip King and Lee Buford of experimental metal band The Body wring all manner of blackness from percussion and guitar, with all controls pushed into the red. [Jan/Feb 2016, p.54]
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