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- Summary: The third-full-length release for the long-gestating (a decade) album from the Long Island post-hardcore band features The Dillinger Escape Plan's Billy Rymer on drums.
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- Record Label: Century Media
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Dec 6, 2017Material Control doesn't cater to anything except the next rush of adrenaline, the next high. ... This is a Glassjaw album, through and through.
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Dec 6, 2017Material Control is an invigorating yet familiar release from the band and by far their angriest and densest music to date.
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Kerrang!Dec 6, 2017It's a record that ignores its own decade-long mystique to work on being important on its own merit, through dazzling songcraft and the band's unrivaled ability to pull brightness from the most freakish and inharmonious junctures. [9 Dec 2017, p.51]
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Jan 3, 2018In paying homage to seminal-but-still-underrated acts like Into Another and Mind Over Matter, Palumbo and Beck create a Glassjaw record unlike any other and not always in a good way. In doing so, they also crafted the Glassjaw record most in tune with our current reality.
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Dec 6, 2017They really leave no space for Palumbo, and while there are distinct choruses, there are no hooks. There are more memorable basslines than vocal melodies.
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Dec 21, 2017Was it worth that wait? That’s open to debate, but it’s definitely not an album you listen to and wish they hadn’t bothered.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Dec 22, 2017
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