- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Jan 27, 2015
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Feb 12, 2015It’s as difficult as black metal gets, often so difficult that the ”you” of the title seems leveled at the listener as much as at the rest of the world, but it’s also as perfect as black metal gets and the logical end goal of everything the Body and Thou have been working towards, separately and together, since they began.
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Apr 20, 2015Every note sounds instinctual, every moment fluid; this is what happens when good friends come together to watch the world burn.
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Mar 13, 2015You, Whom I Have Always Hated is a beautifully punishing listen.
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Jan 27, 2015The crushing intensity on this collection is commonplace for both bands, but comes together with more swampy layers than either can muster on their own.
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Jan 27, 2015Taken as a full-length by two groups that treat the format with some suspicion, You, Whom I Have Always Hated is a remarkably cohesive and singular album. Though it shows signs of both responsible parties, it also proves their inherent restlessness.
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Jan 27, 2015You, Whom I Have Always Hated is a remarkably coherent and singular piece of work, which, due to its economy and pacing, never stumbles across an ill-fitting moment in which you can hear the seam that joins two different creative forces.
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Jan 27, 2015The Body and Thou's collaboration, though at times coalescing into a perfect rumble (See: 'Lurking Free'), with its reverberations capable of rattling chest cavities (See: the pretentiously titled 'Beyond The Realms Of Dreams, That Fleeting Shade Under The Corpus Of Vanity'), lacks the desired cohesion from beginning to end to impart the feeling of a complete album.
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Jan 27, 2015Taken in isolation each track holds up extremely well, but as a complete piece of work it sometimes seems to rely on a few too many repeated motifs.
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Q MagazineFeb 25, 2015Enthusiasts for dooomy extremes will find much to love here. [Apr 2015, p.97]
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Jan 27, 2015Collaboratively, then, You, Whom I Have Always Hated makes for a solid metal album, but the attribute that gives it an edge works also as a reminder as to just how imaginative this collaboration could be the next time around.