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May 18, 2015Prurient’s masterpiece.... Frozen Niagara Falls is also one of Prurient’s most accessible works, with Fernow’s arrangements constantly pulling you along.
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Jun 15, 2015The LP hops between ideas and experiments in the tradition of the rock music double-album, and even within individual songs things are rarely straightforward.
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MagnetJun 4, 2015It's far and away Fernow's most affecting recorded work to date. [No. 120, p.59]
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May 14, 2015With Niagara, he's taken strengths from his entire oeuvre to reach deeper into himself and produce what may be his best record yet, one that brings all the fulfillment of noise and transcends them all the same.
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Sep 3, 2015Blare Falls in the prescribed order, on shuffle, in a plane, on a train: You’ll dance, you’ll cringe, your Mom will freak out, your homies may start rumors about you--which is as it should be.
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MojoJul 6, 2015This is terrific, 90-minutes of ice-quaking noise, jet-engine feedback, histrionic metal screaming, Gothic doom and ambient euphoria that feels simultaneously ecstatic and terrifying. [Aug 2015, p.95]
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Jun 4, 2015This is a great album, and it's incredible to see Fernow again broadening the scope of the noise genre.
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May 19, 2015As always, Fernow offers a challenge with his music. Those who accept it will be rewarded with an intensely vital listen.
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The WireMay 15, 2015The second CD is noisier at times, and more surprising overall, introducing new instruments to powerful effect. [May 2015, p.53]
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May 14, 2015To the outsider, this album certainly feels like a defining statement, one that has considered each and every molecule that this abstract marvel might assume.
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May 14, 2015Through every shift in tone and style, Fernow keeps his focus, connecting these songs with small bits of spoken word that conjure up dark visions of people desperately searching for meaning in an increasingly dismal world.
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May 19, 2015A double album that cracks Fernow’s process and history apart, rebuilds it Frankenstein-like from the pieces, and lets it live and breathe in the world.
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Jun 22, 2015Any Prurient release is a demanding listen, but Frozen Niagara Falls is one of his most surprising and rewarding works.
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May 28, 2015Even incoherent and excessively long, Frozen Niagara Falls shows that, like John Wiese with his recent--and more rewarding--masterpiece Deviate From Balance, Fernow is pulling apart the clichés of noise and looking at where it goes from here.
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UncutMay 28, 2015Frozen Niagara Falls is still a rocky ride in places. [Jul 2015, p.81]
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May 14, 2015An unforgiving album about an often unforgiving city.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 3 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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