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- Summary: The third full-length release from indie rock band Mamalarky was recorded in Los Angeles with production by Livvy Bennett and Michael Hunter.
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- Record Label: Epitaph
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Apr 30, 2025The band’s singularity makes their music something of an acquired taste. Hex Key is not accessible to a wider public. Or rather, only bits of it are, such as the catchy choruses of “Take Me” and “Nothing Lasts Forever”.
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Apr 30, 2025he mercurial Hex Key is compellingly weird and rhythmically and melodically catchy, with each of its fluorescent, silver-, or neon-colored tracks holding earworm potential.
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Apr 30, 2025You can trace a path from the band’s beginning to this point, but that fact doesn’t make this latest step any less impressive; even longtime fans might be tempted to do a double take in admiration, as if to ask, “Wait, this is the same band from back then?”
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Apr 30, 2025For all its variations and dynamics, Hex Key keeps its cards close to its chest. Mamalarky remain unknowable. Even the album’s most unscrupulous songs (“MF,” “Blow Up”) are polished affairs, guitar and drums building tension just so.