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10.0
48919
10.0 |
A.V. Club
Metz isn’t a statement of nihilism or finality; it’s a bright, exploratory scalpel making the first of hopefully many incisions
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9.0
47583
9.0 |
PopMatters
METZ shines brightly, like a Molotov cocktail at the moment of impact
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9.0
47612
9.0 |
musicOMH
An album that sounds fresh despite having its roots firmly planted in the post-hardcore/pre-grunge era
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9.0
47640
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
This is not just the best debut you will hear all year, but the best of the decade thus far
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9.0
47825
9.0 |
The Quietus
One of the finest and most ferocious punk albums in years
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9.0
48090
9.0 |
No Ripcord
It’s impossible not to be enamoured with the spirit and the message of METZ
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8.5
47282
8.5 |
Pitchfork
They understand pop-song economy, carefully arranging their riffs, rhythms, and screams in two-to-three-minute bursts that still feel immediate and catchy in the absence of proper sing-along hooks
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8.0
47313
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Metz make you want to jump in the air and hurl yourself at the wall for no reason
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8.0
47260
8.0 |
BBC
Metz take three-chord rock, in all its misfit, dilapidated glory, back to the mildew-ridden basement where ultimately it belongs
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8.0
47261
8.0 |
NME
Metz deliver the same righteous anger that informed much of their favourite music in the early ’90s
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8.0
47262
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
They bring a sharpened tune-smithery to their noise-punk
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8.0
47263
8.0 |
The Fly
If this record doesn’t persuade you that you’ve experienced an unstoppable force with near irreversible impact, it’s not METZ’s problem, it’s yours
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8.0
48316
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Intense, primal and ferocious, Metz are a band to soundtrack today’s hard times with suitably tough and unrelenting music. A magnificent piece of work
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7.9
47497
7.9 |
Beats Per Minute
By approaching their craft with both diligence and ebullience, Metz have tapped into something primeval, something that should appeal as much to basement-dwelling metalheads as it will to neurotic art rockers
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6.5
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6.5 |
Prefix
METZ is, in short, an almost-amazing album, an album of extremely well built and executed rock songs undone by a production that all too often calls attention to
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6.5
47259
6.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Strictness, precise savagery, burning frustration and searing guitars populate the serrated set of eleven purposely brutalist tracks here
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6.0
47541
6.0 |
State
Under the guidance of Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh and Crystal Castles’ Alexandre Bonefante, they’ve managed to record something that captures the essence of their enigmatic gigs
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6.0
47266
6.0 |
All Music
The Toronto trio is just a ball of heavy genres, lumping together noise rock, post-punk, hardcore, no wave, or any style that might punish a pair of eardrums
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