Wednesday, September 19, 2018

The Armed - Only Love (2018)


Colorful, dense, ecstatically heavy, spastic-hardcore-based sounds from Detroit. Love the way this album is structured -- more and more melody starts seeping in as it goes on, but without sacrificing an ounce of intensity, then they burn it all down in a glorious, atonal, yet somehow beautiful inferno. But I'm just another voice in a large choir of people around the internet currently singing this record's praises, so let's not waste any more of your time or mine -- if you haven't already, go read what someone else has to say about it. Free/name your price via bandcamp.

Track listing:
1. Witness
2. Role Models
3. Nowhere to Be Found
4. Apperception
5. Parody Warning
6. Fortune's Daughter
7. Luxury Themes
8. Heavily Lined
9. Middle Homes
10. Ultraglass
11. On Jupiter

Sparks fly from their eyes
Birds fly from their mouths


You'd also enjoy:
Gasp - Drome Triler
of Puzzle Zoo People
(1998)
Wildildlife -
Six (2007)

2 comments:

  1. I've been plundering this blog for months now, getting into sounds that I probably would have never heard anywhere else otherwise. To come here and see posted my favourite record of 2018 made my giney tingle.

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  2. Complete longshot now but do you happen to know of any other bands that mix like harsh electronics/punk/pop structures etc like The Armed do?

    Longtime blog lurker and first time commenter, always love your recommendations

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