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Jul 15, 2013With this release, Locrian have created a gorgeous piece of musical architecture and filled it with unquiet ghosts.
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Dec 5, 2013Locrian proves itself expert in simultaneously exploiting the warm blanket of beauty and the cold ice water of noise.
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Jul 24, 2013This is the rare album that reveals new depth within a catalog that already seemed so deep and ruminative while proclaiming rather unlimited possibilities for a band nearing the end of its first decade.
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Kerrang!Jul 15, 2013Amid all the feedback and echoes here, there's something wonderfully ominous about Locrain's music. [29 Jun 2013, p.54]
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Aug 5, 2013The strongest element the band took from its prog forebears for this compact, powerful record is just the sense of the album as a journey, one that feels complete.
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Jul 15, 2013While they still wander adventurously, Locrian’s soundscapes are beginning to resemble fully realized songs with a beginning, middle, and end.
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Jul 15, 2013While it’s certain that catastrophe is written all over Locrian’s high-concept Return to Annihilation, the experience is a step removed from the anxiety of early post-rock: here the listener trudges through the burnt-out husk of a world, its structures transfigured, estranged from their original forms.