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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Pittsburgh hardcore band Code Orange was self-produced and features a guest appearance by Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan.
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- Record Label: Blue Grape
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal
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Sep 29, 2023It’s in the staggering breadth of what Code Orange dare to do here that’s as striking as how much they want you to break your neck from turning your head every time they dart around a corner.
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Sep 29, 2023Its genre-fluidity and accessibility, while at times being as heavy as any of their old material, portrays much of what makes the genre so thriving even outside the mainstream eye.
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Sep 29, 2023The album, frustratingly, proceeds on a perplexingly flat note. Clocking in at 14 songs, one wonders if the ferocity of ‘Grooming My Replacement’ could have completed a memorable ten-track collection, with the final few tracks lacking that consistent cutting edge.
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Sep 29, 2023This bare regurgitation of conflicting sounds is what hurts The Above the most, presenting as a (not so) greatest hits compilation from purgatory. It feels cobbled together, without care for global coherence nor the refined execution of any one sound, instead counting on the excitement of variety and disjunction to make up for its less considered, less interesting content.