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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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Aug 23, 2024
    100
    While 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.
  2. Aug 23, 2024
    91
    In their third decade, Melt-Banana have, indisputably, made their most insane record and, arguably, their masterpiece.
  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Aug 23, 2024
    80
    Relentlessly experimental ear bashers, just an infectious childlike excitement in the exhilarating combined power of mangled pop and apocalyptic noise. [Sep 2024, p.68]
  4. Aug 23, 2024
    80
    There 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.
  5. Aug 27, 2024
    80
    This is a Red Bull of an album, a total kick in short bursts but likely a strain on your heart in larger doses.
  6. Record Collector
    Sep 10, 2024
    80
    If 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]
  7. Aug 26, 2024
    80
    A 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.

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