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Sep 17, 2015Pain: the quintessential Deaf Wish family album.
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MagnetAug 12, 2015It's terrifying... yet also weirdly gorgeous and enlivening. [No. 123, p.57]
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Aug 7, 2015The album is brimming with originality. There are hints of Sonic Youth, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and the Swell Maps in the songs.
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Aug 7, 2015It’s evident that Deaf Wish can adopt just about any sound or style that they want to, and that’s what they seemingly tried to do on Pain. For many other bands, that approach could muddy the waters or create a convoluted listening experience, but this doesn’t happen here. They choose to be themselves--each one of them--and it works.
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Aug 27, 2015At 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.
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Aug 14, 2015At 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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Aug 7, 2015Pain isn’t a record you need to dwell on in order to understand.
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Aug 7, 2015Pain has the audacity to come correct, while so many 90s miners are content to approximate. They place themselves in the pantheon and let the gatekeepers of dubious to imperious distinction do what they will.
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Aug 7, 2015One of the most joyously deafening albums of 2015.