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The Film

SUMAC & Moor Mother

The Film

Debut full-length collaboration between the American/Canadian post-metal group and Philadelphia poet and musician Camae Ayewa

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Thrill Jockey
UK Release date
25/04/2025
US Release date
25/04/2025
  1. 9.2 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    For those who care, The Film is one to be treasured
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  2. 8.7 |   Beats Per Minute

    SUMAC and Moor Mother have taken an unprecedented approach, reexamining Afrofuturism through a deliciously dissonant and catastrophic lens, resulting in one of the year’s most essential listens
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  3. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    What better encapsulation of 2025 than the majestic, 16-minute, elegant fist that is The Film’s closing track. It kicks straight in. No threats. No insinuations. All business
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  4. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    The Film is at its most impactful when SUMAC and Moor Mother's most obvious musical building blocks are conjoined
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  5. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    SUMAC and Moor Mother cinematically raise the stakes on their collaborative record, The Film
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  6. 8.0 |   All Music

    A full-length collaborative work from the avant-metal group and poet/sound artist that plays as a tense, panic-stricken narrative
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Some of the most minimal yet complex, heavy but refined music going. Print edition only

  8. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Where Moor Mother's usual free jazz band Irreversible Entanglements give warm instrumental life to poem which are ultimately hopeful for change, Sumac offer grinding feedback symphonies. Print edition only


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