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- Summary: The latest full-length release from experimental metal duo The Body was produced and recorded by Seth Manchester and features guest vocalists Felicia Chen and Ben Eberle.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Industrial, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Heavy Metal, Experimental Rock, Doom Metal, Noise-Rock
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Nov 12, 2024The band’s twisted takes on dub, electronica and popular music find transcendence through the contributions of guests, like vocalists Chen and Ben Eberle, live strings, horns and piano, and the nuanced production of Seth Manchester.
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Nov 12, 2024Anguished and uncomfortable as it may be, Chip King and Lee Buford have constructed a brutalist masterpiece, here.
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Nov 12, 2024The Crying Out of Things is a powerful high point in the Body's massive discography.
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Record CollectorDec 2, 2024There are subtler, sometimes surprising, details lurking in the main maelstrom. Also in contrast to that cathartically apocalyptic racket, the duo have added some nice warm brass parts. [Christmas 2024, p.131]
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The WireNov 12, 2024The Crying Out Of Things, their latest album as a duo since 2021’s I’ve Seen All I Need To See, builds on the idiosyncratic elements of their established sound – monstrous distortion, crushed electronic beats and samples, scorched screams, fragments of punk, metal, pop, hiphop and dub – and the results are thrillingly, crushingly bleak. [Dec 2024, p.42]
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Nov 15, 2024It’s awful and overwhelmingly loud — but there’s also a soaring quality to the melody that establishes itself amid the clangor and noise. That’s the curious, nearly undecidable quality in The Crying Out of Things. It’s full of ugly volume and rage. But there is a terrible beauty in many of the tracks, an affect that expands underneath the ugliness.