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Total Tracks: 8   Total Length: 64:39

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Quasi-Follow Up to the Shape of Punk to Come

MEGAVORE

If you are a fanatical Refused fan like I am, you should be extremely excited about this album. While the Refused underwent a tensioned dissolution in Harrisonburg, Va, they had already written a bunch of stuff for their would be next album. Instead of filing this away, the remaining members (pretty sure just David and Kristofer) formed text. Who knows if this is exactly what the next Refused album, but spiritually if feels like the direction they were headed in - far more abstract and conceptual than anything they had done before. This album confirms two things a.) that David and Kristofer were clearly the driving musical force behind the Refused (doubly concerned by Dennis’s sad solo career) and b.) they would have likely alienated their mainstream fan-base with this release. This album is intensely stand-off-ish, but it gets better with each listen – real refused fans should commit to listen to this a few times before you decide you don’t like it. MEGAVORE.blogspot.com.

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Text has created the one of the most impressive, bewildering, and genre-blending records of the late ’90s/early 2000s. The songs themselves are separate pieces, yet they are held together musically through excellent production, bold instrumentation, and overall vibes. This record contains songs that blend spoken word and jazz, hardcore rock and reggae, and others. The standout track on this album is “Sound Is Compressed; Words Rebel and Hiss.” The 11-minute epic starts with a Euro-gospel/reggae groove that is very beautiful. The track moves slowly into a something darker. A somber male/female duet moves into a free jazz freakout that is amazing, powerful, and important. “We Have Explosives! — Schmexplosives” is an instrumental avant-garde piece that shockingly alternates from disarmingly spare to disarmingly abrasive and loud. Some of the record could be seen as pretentious, but with something as interesting as this record, pretense is welcome. The only problem with this record is finding ways to describe it. The only way to thoroughly describe the album is to listen to it. Fans of hardcore music, avant-garde music, and certainly Refused fans will not be disappointed. – Zach Curd

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