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No One Deserves Happiness

The Body

No One Deserves Happiness

Fifth album from the Providence, Rhode Island experimental sludge metal band formed in 1999

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Thrill Jockey
UK Release date
18/03/2016
US Release date
18/03/2016
  1. 9.0 |   Spin

    While Happiness absolutely has the feel of a Body album, it in no way sounds like anything we’ve heard from the band before
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  2. 8.3 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Despite the misery that inspires and thrives within their suffocating work, the band shows a remarkable sense of vitality, inspiring to longtime and new fans alike
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    The way the Body combine disparate components into their brand of mutilated "gross pop" is truly fascinating
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  4. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    Transcendent and unbearable. Settle in and endure
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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    As gross as The Body set out to make No One Deserves Happiness, it is Wolpert’s presence that actually provides it with an element of hope
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  6. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    The Portland experimental metal outfit have made their simplest record yet, one that is less sprawling than their earlier releases and scarier for its concision
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  7. 7.0 |   The 405

    The Body gracefully don't try to solve the zeitgeist of human suffering one way or the other, but they surely have retained their expert status at describing its pitfalls
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  8. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    No One Deserves Happiness, is the Body's attempt to make "the grossest pop album of all time". Well, they've certainly shown another bend in their malleable sound
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  9. 7.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    No One Deserves Happiness toes the line between impenetrable and accessible
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  10. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    It’s all hopeless and self-defeating, but there’s a moment-to-moment investment in fulfilling bodily expectations that’s hard to register as anything but pleasure, or even happiness
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  11. 6.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    The kitchen sink approach to grim, grinding grotesquery calls to mind Swans in running clown make-up
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