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- Summary: This is the first full-length release from Japanese noise-rock band Melt Banana in 11 years.
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- Record Label: A-Zap Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 23, 2024While not as sparklingly euphoric as their previous album, 2013's Fetch, their long-expected return is a collection of brazen, seering energy beams, like being hunted with a dragon’s breath shotgun in Akira’s Tokyo.
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Aug 23, 2024In their third decade, Melt-Banana have, indisputably, made their most insane record and, arguably, their masterpiece.
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Classic Rock MagazineAug 23, 2024Relentlessly experimental ear bashers, just an infectious childlike excitement in the exhilarating combined power of mangled pop and apocalyptic noise. [Sep 2024, p.68]
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Aug 23, 2024There is hardly a wasted second on this thing, not a single gap in the energy rush it sustains, and I suspect it will fare extremely well in a live setting as such. Quibble if you will over this being the mode Melt-Banana have opted to commit to; we're still getting them at their best.
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Aug 27, 2024This is a Red Bull of an album, a total kick in short bursts but likely a strain on your heart in larger doses.
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Record CollectorSep 10, 2024If music that sounds as if it might come off the rails at any moment is your cup of tea, this album is for you. [Oct 2024, p.103]
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Aug 26, 2024A project with little boundaries, 3+5 stands on its own two feet as a concoction of hyperactive releases weaving in disco, electronica, cyberpunk, metal and more.