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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for the Brooklyn post-punk quartet was recorded over a weekend in January and produced by Jordan Lovelace.
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  1. Nov 14, 2016
    75
    The stakes aren’t high on Devil Music, an album that feels less like a career marker for The Men and more like a simple, straightforward gift that they had a blast making, and something they hope you’ll like too.
  2. Uncut
    Nov 22, 2016
    70
    Devil Music's relentless velocity and heaps of fuzz and reverb are easy to savour even if it could use more songs as strong as "Lion's Den" and Patterns." [Jan 2017, p.27]
  3. Dec 1, 2016
    70
    Devil Music celebrates the moment and feeling over premeditation. Six records In, The Men continue to defy expectations.
  4. Nov 14, 2016
    68
    For all its wrath and fury, Devil Music feels safe and predictable. It’s a hell of a party, but it’s one we’ve been to before.
  5. Nov 14, 2016
    67
    Devil Music sounds like The Men took that talent, gave into their most primal, terrifying desires, and built a raucous, bruising--and never harmless--noise out of it.
  6. Nov 14, 2016
    65
    Devil Music is unabashed reverence, almost innocuously so, but articulated with thunderous gravity and primitivism, if not focus. It won’t feature on many end of year lists, but it’s a helluva road trip, albeit one you’ll forget a year later.
  7. Nov 30, 2016
    60
    Devil Music sounds like a compilation of unpolished ideas taken from scrapped recording sessions, and though it highlights The Men at their best it also portrays them as lazy underachievers. And they’re too smart to be labeled as such.

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