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QuicksandDistant Populations

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✦✦✦✧ While this is the first full-length featuring the post-hardcore legends as a trio minus Tom Capone, Quicksand’s trademark street-fight swagger is still all over the album. The broodier and more midtempo side of the band takes greater prominence here, but that’s been coming for a long time now (I’d say it was always here). Anyway, fear not: the quieter moments give a welcome sense of space and breathability. And while their previous album Interiors felt like the band were trying each other out for size after a long hiatus (which, they were), this album feels like the band know how to be together, and how to have fun with it. I like this album more than Interiors, but not as much as Manic Compression.