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Pain Image
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  1. Sep 17, 2015
    80
    Pain: the quintessential Deaf Wish family album.
  2. Aug 7, 2015
    80
    The album is brimming with originality. There are hints of Sonic Youth, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and the Swell Maps in the songs.
  3. Magnet
    Aug 12, 2015
    80
    It's terrifying... yet also weirdly gorgeous and enlivening. [No. 123, p.57]
  4. Aug 7, 2015
    70
    One of the most joyously deafening albums of 2015.
  5. Aug 7, 2015
    70
    Pain isn’t a record you need to dwell on in order to understand.
  6. Aug 27, 2015
    70
    At just over 30 minutes, it’s a wild ride that, listened to at the right volume, will no doubt result in the appropriate amount of pain.
  7. 70
    At times it makes the album feel like a compilation of great lost No Wave acts, but when it all clicks together like on the blistering, agit-hardcore blast "They Know", Deaf Wish are a mighty force.

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