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- Summary: The second release from New York-based band YHWH Nailgun features 10 tracks over 11 minutes.
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- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Experimental, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jun 15, 2026Marketable sounds are perpetually repackaged and sold back to listeners creating a seemingly endless cycle of revivals of revivals ad infinitum. YHWH Nailgun break this cycle and, on ‘Magazine’, wholly prove their mettle as a truly original and prophetic act.
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Jun 15, 2026Magazine, though, is to me a tremendous next step, as YHWH Nailgun find how much structure and sophistication they can fit into very tiny spaces. If you thought the rototoms were a gimmick, even a good one, they’re gone; if you thought Borzone’s words were inscrutable, they have new relevance and urgency, motivational slogans for the dispossessed.
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Jun 15, 2026The result, somehow, is brilliant: uncontrolled chaos, presented in the most controlled of settings.
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Jun 16, 2026Here’s a record that’s got people talking. Is it a gimmick? Maybe. But after a few listens, you’re in on the gag, and it’s pretty unsettling.
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Jun 16, 2026Despite its problems, Magazine serves as a rallying call, a war cry to rouse the dumbed-down spirit.
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Jun 15, 2026Without sounding like a broken record, it’s tough to sit with the overwhelming sensations of these tracks when they are gone before even arriving. The longest track of the record however, at one minute and 36 seconds, feels the perfect length to live with.