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9.1
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A.V. Club
Aesthethica feels less like metal—black, post-, or otherwise—and more like Liturgy. And in this case, that’s a great thing
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9.0
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9.0 |
No Ripcord
Black metal for prog fans or math rockers
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9.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
A sound both punishing and expansive that threatens to rip down the heavens, even as it throws its arms wide to embrace them
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8.3
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Pitchfork
Without "reinventing" black metal, Liturgy have successfully refashioned its basic components ... in their own willful image and directed its energy toward their own idiosyncratic ends
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8.2
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Beats Per Minute
Perhaps Aesthethica is too academic, too ponderous, but there’s something affecting and purposeful at work here that’s more than just unique
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8.0
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Spin
Repurposing tired metal tropes for ecstatic sensory trips, these songs are steel-tipped pointillist portraits of vitality itself
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
It’s challenging at first, yes, but most importantly, it’s inclusive and ultimately uplifting, tossing genre bias aside in favor of several moments of — deal with it, metal sourpusses — pure transcendence
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
Entertaining on its own visceral terms, but not wholly convincing
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5.0
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The 405
Aesthetica has exhilarating moments of cosmic beauty ... and periods of horrifying annihilation
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5.0
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5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
The only real break anyone gets from this sloppy mess of barrages is “Helix Skull” — a straight-up keyboard instrumental that…just…doesn’t belong. At all
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Digital Fix
There are some great ideas in here, but with a combination of massive overkill and a lack of any sort of development, the life and enjoyment is not so much sucked out as brutally and repeatedly beaten out of even the most wonderful of musical gems
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