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Natural History

Dope Body

Natural History

Second album from the Baltimore quartet that merges math rock and hardcore punk

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
21/05/2012
US Release date
22/05/2012
  1. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    Plenty of moments when the line between goofball antics and freakish punk-rock blowouts gets blurred. They may have changed up their game, but Dope Body still nail the sweet spot between savagery and self-awareness
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  2. 7.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    This record is a perfect soundtrack for any drunken destruction party, tantrum, or any other moment of great primitivism. And as a music listener, you can ask for little more than something so natural
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  3. 7.5 |   Prefix

    Nupping proved it, and Natural History amplifies the point that Dope Body are a completely unimpeachable unit from a musical standpoint: able to fit in with contemporaries while still sounding undoubtedly like themselves
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  4. 7.0 |   All Music

    If Dope Body can keep playing around with elements like the grinding, crackling hook of "Out of My Mind," it'll be interesting to see what a third album can bring
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  5. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Inspired dude-rock from Baltimore longhairs. Print edition only

  6. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    For some bands, being noisy and doused in distortion is an excuse to not write clearly structured songs. Fortunately, that school of thought is not one Dope Body subject themselves to
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  7. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Natural History does lack a sense of cohesion, but that feels entirely in keeping with the endearingly insouciant spirit which underpins i
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