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Pain To Power

Maruja

Pain To Power

Debut full length release from the Manchester post-rock band

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Music for Nations
UK Release date
12/09/2025
US Release date
12/09/2025
  1. 10.0 |   God Is In The TV

    The thrill of this band is the extremes. From moshpits one minute and silence the next, they are in command with their music, unifying the crowd
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  2. 10.0 |   Kerrang!

    Incredible lead single Look Down On Us is just one of three tunes here that capture Maruja’s free-flowing approach by stretching out to the 10-minute mark
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  3. 9.0 |   Paste Magazine

    The Manchester quartet’s long-awaited debut album is a feral and loving atmosphere calling attention to world crises. The songs are overwhelming but never threadbare, packed with colossal brass, elastic diatribes, and tourniquet rhythms
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  4. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    This band and this record want you to punch a hole in the wall, ask if you're willing to step through it – and then beckon others to do the same
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  5. 9.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Musically, Pain to Power doesn’t stick to one genre. The raw edge of post-punk collides with jazz, doom, rap-rock, and post-rock ambience
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  6. 8.0 |   Far Out

    They really have taken a complicated moment and made it into a fantastic piece of music
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  7. 8.0 |   NME

    The Manchester jazz-punks let loose on their savage debut album through cathartic outpourings of fury, despair and love
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  8. 8.0 |   Clash

    Rage-infused music of dissolution
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  9. 6.9 |   Pitchfork

    Mesmerizing but somewhat disjointed, the Manchester group’s debut album boomerangs between hardcore, hip-hop, free jazz, and alt-rock balladry while rebuking oppressive power structures
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  10. 4.0 |   The Quietus

    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
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