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Oct 17, 2025LOTTO is worlds more polished and confident than TAGABOW’s previous efforts. .... His [Doug Dulgarian's] anti-capitalist screeds make for some of the strongest lyrical moments in his band’s catalogue, shining through on the more stanza-heavy songs, like on the sharp, noisy rollercoaster “violence iii.”
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Oct 23, 2025This, their most fully formed and digestible album to date, might well mark their breaking point to larger audiences and wider acclaim.
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Oct 17, 2025The band, led by its creative core Douglas Dulgarian, have managed to fuse the noisiness of reverse-reverb effects and jungle breaks with the dark, heavy textures of contemporary shoegaze. And Lotto, their most recent outburst, might well be their greatest.
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Oct 17, 2025‘LOTTO’ is still a disorientating and mystical record—one that feels a little out of reach even after multiple listens—but it’s certainly one of the most compelling releases of the year, the kind of album you’ll feel drawn to return to again and again.
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Oct 17, 2025Even on an album with this much bleakness and terror, They Are Gutting a Body of Water make a beautifully uplifting noise.
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Oct 21, 2025Lotto gambles on TAGABOW’s ability to craft songs more compelling in their simplicity and vulnerability than their technical capabilities. By trading in their plastic sheen for a more ragged sense of real-life urgency, TAGABOW expose the tenderness at their music’s core: a refusal to anesthetize, an avowal to meet the bone where it breaks.
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Oct 17, 2025LOTTO is disorienting and messy, but there's undoubtedly something real and honest about it.
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Oct 17, 2025The record is at its best when it retains the sense of adventure that has defined their earlier work.