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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 28, 2025Any fans of the band’s stellar trio of 2010s albums (“Sunbather,” “New Bermuda” and “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love”) will find much to love. But that doesn’t mean they’re repeating themselves: It’s a more refined sound, the towering textures of the guitars are more carefully crafted than ever, and the softer moments are more frequent and effective. There’s also more variety.
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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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Mar 26, 2025This album is an artistic triumph. It blends the strongest elements of a “metal” album like New Bermuda with the strongest elements of a “shoegaze” album like Infinite Granite, and features the band playing both metal and shoegaze better than they did on either album.
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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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Aug 6, 2025Lonely People with Power finds Deafheaven incorporating the most successful parts of that album into their usual sound, resulting in one of their strongest works.
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Apr 1, 2025Listeners will probably appreciate that many of the sounds on “Doberman” are reminiscent of the sounds that first made people fall in love with the band. However, there are still ample signs of creative evolution: variation in drum patterns, a reverb-laden break three-quarters of the way through, harsh vocals that aren’t quite buried as deep into the mix as they used to be.
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Mar 31, 2025When you’re known for crossing into multiple genres over the course of six albums, consistency is an easy thing to lose track of. Lonely People With Power however, proves Deafheaven are a group that stays the course and keep delivering that signature sound they’re known for.
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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 27, 2025There’s a gleaming shine on everything that fills it all with vitality. Far from a step back, or attempt to redress something, a return to heaviness is simply the next piece of the picture. That you can hear them fair running towards it with refreshed enthusiasm for such things only makes it sing all the louder.
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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 26, 2025‘Lonely People with Power’ could perhaps have used a little pruning. For the most part, though, it stands as a testament to the power not just of forging your own lane, but becoming master of it, too.
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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 28, 2025Deafheaven has worked consistently to refine the refreshing black metal + shoegaze fusion for which it earned renown, with Lonely People with Power representing yet another phase of the band’s artistic evolution. This will indeed thrill longtime fans while simultaneously ushering new listeners into the fold.
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Mar 27, 2025As often as the band has pushed in new directions, it’s never abandoned the core dynamics of its songwriting, a fact that Lonely People With Power underlines. Fifteen years into their career, having long transcended any given genre, set of influences, or fan expectations, Deafheaven sound, more than ever, like nothing other than themselves.
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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.
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