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Sep 11, 2025This is surely one of the year’s most important records.
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Sep 12, 2025Pain for Power is overwhelming but never threadbare, packed with colossal brass, elastic diatribes, and tourniquet rhythms.
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Sep 11, 2025Maruja and their defiant debut record meet us at that starting point, helping us to make sense of a world gone numb, to turn numbness into feeling and fire.
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Sep 12, 2025“Absolute carnage” was how we described Maruja’s Glastonbury appearance earlier this year, and while no studio recording can capture that sort of live magic, ‘Pain To Power’ comes pretty bloody close.
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Sep 11, 2025While ‘Pain To Power’ advances the harsh pairing of the saxophone with noise-rock that Maruja have already explored, its standout moments come through expressions of love – fulfilling Wilkinson’s on-stage promise.
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Oct 1, 2025The record presents a more complete vision of what Maruja has been teasing across their various EPs.
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Sep 17, 2025The best songs on Pain to Power capture that electric, instantaneous energy, where everything collides in delightful chaos. Maruja only lose that alchemic touch when they overthink the process.
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Sep 11, 2025Squandered its potential. Maruja emerge from the studio with raucous rap-rock and meandering jam music in tow, resulting in an album full of the same songs several times over. By the end, listeners may feel they have deja vu. Fans may feel they have dementia.