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- Summary: The second full-length release for the Washington, D.C. post-punk band was produced by John Congleton and is its first without bassist Taylor Mulitz (who left to focus on Flasher).
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- Record Label: Sister Polygon Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Apr 5, 2019The follow-up amplifies the hooks, widens the scope, deepens the wordplay.
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Apr 8, 2019While they're too nonconformist to be a traditional punk band, they continue to define themselves as something more challenging and encompassing.
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Apr 2, 2019The Seduction of Kansas finds Priests progressing beyond their abrasive punk roots into a genre-defying force, fluent in the slick soundscapes of St. Vincent and the Talking Heads as well as the grain and grit of Portishead and Nine Inch Nails.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2019Her dark theatrics dominate 68 Screen, evoking '70s punks X-Ray Spex with a call-and-response about women's commodified bodies. [Jun 2019, p.115]
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Apr 5, 2019The music fits the expansive mood, at once dreamy and pointed, suggesting a psychedelic mutation of Southern indie-rock gods Pylon’s agrarian art-disco or David Bowie’s Scary Monsters toughened up on a Factory Records budget. As with the greatest anti-fascist ranters, Priests’ critiques hit home hardest when they are singing from inside capitalism’s and sexism’s matrices of exploitation, turning impassioned theory into resonate practice.
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Apr 8, 2019The Seduction of Kansas is another evocative and considered album, the band reiterating their ability to present topics with tremendous clarity and depth. Which, given the complexity of their themes, is exactly what most of us are crying out for.
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Apr 2, 2019The Seduction Of Kansas is a fun, dancey funk-punk record that benefits from Congleton’s lightness of touch, proof that you can step outside your comfort zone and maintain your sense of self.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Apr 5, 2019
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