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Lonely People With Power

Deafheaven

Lonely People With Power

Sixth album from the San Francisco post-black metal outfit

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
PLG UK Frontline
UK Release date
28/03/2025
US Release date
28/03/2025
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Deafheaven’s best album yet, and one that serves as a snapshot of a band at the peak of their powers
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  2. 9.0 |   Clash

    A cacophonous exhibition of everything that makes Deafheaven so special, ‘Lonely People With Power’ stands resolutely alongside ‘Sunbather’, ‘New Bermuda’, and ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ as testament to the brilliance of a band that is quickly amassing an unrivalled discography of masterpieces
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  3. 8.0 |   The FT

    NEW The San Francisco band return to their black metal sound with guttural shrieks and blistering riffs
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  4. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    Far from a step back, or attempt to redress something, a return to heaviness is simply the next piece of the picture. That you can hear them fair running towards it with refreshed enthusiasm for such things only makes it sing all the louder
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  5. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The endlessly inventive metal band mixes painterly lyrics, raw aggression, and earworm melodies on their best album yet
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    George Clarke reawakens his roar on the blackgaze band’s sixth album. It showcases the sheer scope of their sound to date – and breaks some new ground, too
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  7. 8.0 |   DIY

    As singular and engrossing as heavy albums get
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  8. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Deafheaven are characterised as the hipsters of black metal, but Lonely People With Power is their heaviest album yet
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  9. 7.5 |   Pitchfork

    Following a divisively tuneful 2021 album, the California post-metal band returns to its signature sound on its sixth album. But these heavy, soaring songs also hint at unexplored terrain
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  10. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    The black metallers are quieter now, more controlled. The tension is contained, the violence refined. Perhaps they’ve learned. Or grown tired. Perhaps they’ve just grown
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