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82

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second full-length release for the South Korean trio who use Korean instruments such as geomungo, haegum, and piri with traditional western rock instruments.
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They Keep Silence
Korean (with romanization) 차가운 어둠속에 (chagaun eodumsog-e) 고요하 사라지네 (goyoha salajine) 어두운 침묵속에 (eoduun... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Jun 22, 2016
    80
    Genuinely experimental, A Hermitage is a tremendously exciting release which demonstrates there is still new territory to be explored in heavier music; it need not always rely on tried and tested formulae. Jambinai are proof that it is better to be brave.
  2. Q Magazine
    Jun 29, 2016
    80
    The youngsters prove themselves masters of dynamics, in The Mountain's gradually explosive ascent, and the muscular spasms of They Keep Silence. [Aug 2016, p.113]
  3. Jun 22, 2016
    80
    Without question, Jambinai are strikingly original, combining disparate elements into a unique, bewildering sound that resembles no one else.
  4. Uncut
    Jun 22, 2016
    80
    This careful layering of old and new, east and west, has something of the forensic deliberation of post-rock experimentation about it, but songs like "For Everything That You Lost" and "They Keep Silence," which evokes Killing Joke, are thrilling in their intensity. [Aug 2016, p.77]
  5. Jun 22, 2016
    75
    That refusal to keep quiet is essential to the makeup of Jambinai, accentuating and amplifying traditional Korean music, turning up the noise, and letting both traditional and modern emotions vent.
  6. 70
    Jambinai are at their most moving when reduce their ire and create more drawn out, ambient compositions.
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