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83

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  • Summary: The latest full-length release for Brooklyn hardcore band Show Me The Body was recorded with producer Arthur Rizik.
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  1. Nov 4, 2022
    83
    It’s impossible not to come away beaten and bruised by the undulating savagery that emits from a Show Me The Body record. However, from the same wringer, hope miraculously springs eternal. On Trouble The Water, the New York band burn more intensely than ever.
  2. Nov 4, 2022
    80
    Although it might not set your mosh muscles alight like the coffins on its cover, SMTB have improved their genre-exploring recipe with deeper flavours, keeping you coming back for more.
  3. Nov 4, 2022
    80
    Shivering with tension, Trouble the Water is an exciting and urgent call to come together and kick off – at once a reflection of, and a cathartic release from, volatile times.
  4. Nov 21, 2022
    80
    They are as thoughtful and provocative as they are productive, as angry as they are respectful, and music and community-building is their chosen mode of focusing tension.
  5. Nov 4, 2022
    78
    The band’s daring pays off when vocalist Julian Cashwan Pratt breaks his voice wide open on tracks that dig into sounds that are firsts for the band, and consummate what were previously flirtations with dance music.