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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Baltimore noise rock band features some songs from Lifer's recording sessions.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 4 out of 7
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Mixed: 3 out of 7
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Aug 28, 2015As illustrated by Kunk, the band is a breath of originality in the often-hackneyed worlds of punk and hardcore. Play this album the next time you want your dance party to devolve into a cannibalistic orgy.
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MagnetSep 22, 2015Feedback is the duct tape that holds it all together. There might be a little dirt on it, but it's still good. [No. 124, p.55]
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Aug 28, 2015This sort of noise and sludge ain’t for everybody, but fans of the Jesus Lizard, Pissed Jeans, or other such degenerates will take great masochistic pleasure in Kunk’s beatdown.
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Sep 17, 2015They seem to be stretching themselves on this record, searching to create something meaningful in an ugly world, realizing that there are limits to their subgenre-referencing sound and if they are to grow they’ve got to push themselves.
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Aug 28, 2015The instrumental interludes between tunes--the aimless meandering of "Muddy Dune," the squiggling "Ash Toke," and the squall of "Pincher"--are just long enough to distract and blunt the twisted, head-crushing impact of Kunk somewhat.
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Sep 29, 2015Dope Body albums have been great in the past because they took familiar kinds of rock melody and put a sinister spin on them, reimagining American popular rock through a spit-smeared lens, reinvigorating it with the edge and causticity those songs could have conveyed in different hands. But they don’t do any of that here. On Kunk, they just screw around a bit.
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Aug 28, 2015The laziness of lyrical passages, directionless structures, odd lyric rip-offs ('Goon Line' and 'Void' are culprits), and poor mixing works together with the band to hold this record down much lower than its potential.
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