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May 31, 2012This is dirty, dusty, disintegrated bay-music at its best.
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Feb 9, 2012Like a rare, truly-great creepshow, it's the type of harrowing ride I want to experience again and again.
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Mar 14, 2012The Horror makes for a largely relentless, immersive listening experience.
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Feb 10, 2012Awesome record.
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Jan 31, 2012From the album's onset, you're treated to both the abrasive and the profane.
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Jan 26, 2012As an unsettling exercise in pop terrorism, The Horror is a rare treat.
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Jan 26, 2012The Horror is a highly effective album because of how its sense of doom infects you.
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Jan 26, 2012The Horror's assault is quite capable of speaking for itself, and that's what makes it so memorable.
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Feb 15, 2012The Horror is one of the label's most tenacious offerings yet.
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Mar 5, 2012The lack of "slower" numbers doesn't really feel like a valid criticism, though, especially when the band really are at their best when they're riding a burst energy.
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Feb 3, 2012It's The Horror's dirgey digressions that actually best showcase his cold-blooded character.
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Feb 10, 2012In all its abrasive, atonal, and grotesquely depraved glory, The Horror brings some overdue edge and mayhem to the scene.
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Jan 26, 2012The band's free-form style of playing is every bit as anti-musical and explosive as '70s no wave, making for a savage listen.
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Under The RadarMar 21, 2012You want it to be better, to infuse some of the precision and fire of those [proto-industrial 80's] predecessors - but it lags. [Mar 2012, p.87]