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NYC noise rockers Uniform return to Sacred Bones with their most transcendent set yet - four heaving genre-fluxing movements that burrow into the darkest depths of the psyche.
Clear that he wanted to approach difficult subject matter - such as eating disorders, mania, self-hatred and self-discovery - Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan reached out to two writers, Maggie Siebert and B.R. Yeager, who helped him "present a portrait of mental and physical illness as vividly terrifying as anything in the present-day canon". But these lyrics would be nothing without a sufficiently formidable backdrop, so Ben Greenberg's arrangements need a nod too. The title track is immediately shocking, both from the pained lyrics - "there's meat on my face!" - and the searing instrumentation, that's teased out over 20 gristle-filled minutes.
Lurching from doom-y distortions into sludgy ambience and then euphoric hardcore, it's dramatic stuff that the remaining three tracks match in intensity. 'Permanent Embrace' is a particular highlight, trapping the intensity of early '00s US black metal but none of the stifling nihilism.
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Boomkat Product Review:
NYC noise rockers Uniform return to Sacred Bones with their most transcendent set yet - four heaving genre-fluxing movements that burrow into the darkest depths of the psyche.
Clear that he wanted to approach difficult subject matter - such as eating disorders, mania, self-hatred and self-discovery - Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan reached out to two writers, Maggie Siebert and B.R. Yeager, who helped him "present a portrait of mental and physical illness as vividly terrifying as anything in the present-day canon". But these lyrics would be nothing without a sufficiently formidable backdrop, so Ben Greenberg's arrangements need a nod too. The title track is immediately shocking, both from the pained lyrics - "there's meat on my face!" - and the searing instrumentation, that's teased out over 20 gristle-filled minutes.
Lurching from doom-y distortions into sludgy ambience and then euphoric hardcore, it's dramatic stuff that the remaining three tracks match in intensity. 'Permanent Embrace' is a particular highlight, trapping the intensity of early '00s US black metal but none of the stifling nihilism.
Boomkat Product Review:
NYC noise rockers Uniform return to Sacred Bones with their most transcendent set yet - four heaving genre-fluxing movements that burrow into the darkest depths of the psyche.
Clear that he wanted to approach difficult subject matter - such as eating disorders, mania, self-hatred and self-discovery - Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan reached out to two writers, Maggie Siebert and B.R. Yeager, who helped him "present a portrait of mental and physical illness as vividly terrifying as anything in the present-day canon". But these lyrics would be nothing without a sufficiently formidable backdrop, so Ben Greenberg's arrangements need a nod too. The title track is immediately shocking, both from the pained lyrics - "there's meat on my face!" - and the searing instrumentation, that's teased out over 20 gristle-filled minutes.
Lurching from doom-y distortions into sludgy ambience and then euphoric hardcore, it's dramatic stuff that the remaining three tracks match in intensity. 'Permanent Embrace' is a particular highlight, trapping the intensity of early '00s US black metal but none of the stifling nihilism.
Boomkat Product Review:
NYC noise rockers Uniform return to Sacred Bones with their most transcendent set yet - four heaving genre-fluxing movements that burrow into the darkest depths of the psyche.
Clear that he wanted to approach difficult subject matter - such as eating disorders, mania, self-hatred and self-discovery - Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan reached out to two writers, Maggie Siebert and B.R. Yeager, who helped him "present a portrait of mental and physical illness as vividly terrifying as anything in the present-day canon". But these lyrics would be nothing without a sufficiently formidable backdrop, so Ben Greenberg's arrangements need a nod too. The title track is immediately shocking, both from the pained lyrics - "there's meat on my face!" - and the searing instrumentation, that's teased out over 20 gristle-filled minutes.
Lurching from doom-y distortions into sludgy ambience and then euphoric hardcore, it's dramatic stuff that the remaining three tracks match in intensity. 'Permanent Embrace' is a particular highlight, trapping the intensity of early '00s US black metal but none of the stifling nihilism.
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