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Jul 7, 2023The message of humanity and hope that the decolonisation doom of Divide and Dissolve carries grows in strength with their work’s consistency and volume. In that sense, Systemic is no less devastating and uplifting.
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The WireJun 30, 2023A necessary record, and a thoroughly compelling one. [Jul 2023, p.51]
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UncutJun 30, 2023The result is consistently thrilling and uncompromising music. [Aug 2023, p.28]
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Jun 30, 2023More dynamic and sonically defined than Divide and Dissolve's earlier albums, Systemic is easily their most successful work thus far.
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Jun 30, 2023The initial, gut-level response to Systemic’s crust-punk take on doom metal is more than enough to hold it aloft. But in engaging with its themes, then contemplating them on repeat listens, Systemic gains a depth that’s rare for a largely instrumental record.
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Jun 30, 2023Taken as a political, activistic, and aesthetic hybridization, Reed and Nehill’s work is fiercely confrontive, a treatise on humankind’s penchant for cruelty, its evolutionary missteps, but also its opportunities for redemption.
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Jul 11, 2023The record is better when the music does the talking, as it usually does for Divide and Dissolve.