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- Summary: The sixth full-length studio release from San Francisco band Deafheaven features guest appearances by Interpol’s Paul Banks and Boy Harsher's Jae Matthews.
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- Record Label: Roadrunner
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Black Metal
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Mar 31, 2025Lonely People With Power is a masterpiece that turns Deafheaven’s story on its head, leaving greyed out charcoal marks where Sunbather was once penciled in. In fact, declaring it the band’s best work is probably the least interesting thing you could say about the album when there is so much thematic resonance to latch onto and seemingly endless points of musical intrigue packed into this dense of a package that will only continue to reveal itself in time.
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Mar 27, 2025A cacophonous exhibition of everything that makes Deafheaven so special, ‘Lonely People With Power’ stands resolutely alongside ‘Sunbather’, ‘New Bermuda’, and ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ as testament to the brilliance of a band that is quickly amassing an unrivalled discography of masterpieces.
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Apr 8, 2025Somehow, they’ve done it again, as Lonely People with Power more than holds its own within Deafeheaven’s already wildly impressive discography.
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Mar 26, 2025Lonely People With Power is their most sonically-rounded record, probably their heaviest and quite possibly their best.
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Mar 27, 2025Lonely People With Power is an ambitious and oddly gorgeous suite of 12 tracks, vacillating between aching isolation, introspective rage, and a flitting beauty reminiscent of those citrus-born butterflies.
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Mar 26, 2025As singular and engrossing as heavy albums get, its heavenly heights may well induce levitation.
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Mar 27, 2025There is a polish now. A refinement. But it remains, beneath the surface, the same. An exploration that ends where it begins. A band at the edge, unwilling to fall, yet never fully reaching the stratospheric heights they or their listeners deserve. This is a good album, but in trying to find compromise, they give too much away on both sides.