by
Keiji Haino
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Feb 23, 2018
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Feb 26, 2018To describe this group's efforts as excellent or even superb doesn't do their record proper. American Dollar Bill is the record to the end of the world, maybe even to the world as it is right now. If it makes you afraid, then that's very okay. They probably want it that way.
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MagnetApr 17, 2018The band's riffs and solos topple like old growth redwoods unmoored by a mudslide, and when Haino drops his mic to join the fray on guitar and electronics, the collapse is complete. [No. 150, p.56]
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Sep 24, 2018Sumac’s collaboration with Japanese avant-garde icon Keiji Haino is maybe 2018’s best rock record. Its 66-minute run time is a mix of fragility and chaos, a delivery system for raw, visceral shocks of aggression.
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The WireMar 1, 2018Haino’s signature detonations and Yacyshyn’s punctuation leapfrog each other, creating a Möbius strip of energy that escalates freely without falling--a tightrope walk that American Dollar Bill has been building towards all along. [Mar 2018, p.48]
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Feb 26, 2018As sprawling and combustible as this entire album seems, all of the musicians maintain a deadly, razor-sharp focus, and the whole thing is powerful and full of purpose and conviction. Completely unbelievable.
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Mar 6, 2018Even as metal has come closer to the experimental world, he still feels quite far from them. American Dollar Bill bridges that gap, travelling through several extreme languages and still coming out with Haino’s iconoclastic touch.
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Mar 1, 2018As cumbersome as this album can be, its unapologetic excesses baked into its track length and Haino’s sometimes grating vocal, the zero-constraint approach at the core of this mutually beneficial creative merger is compelling.
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Feb 27, 2018Less an album than an uninhibited exploration of the primal power of metal.
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Feb 26, 2018This improvisational collision is not a jam session made of freely flowing psychedelic guitars or endless steady Motorik beats. American Dollar Bill… continually anticipates shifts in speed and direction.