✦✦✦✧ As much as I love DEP, I can’t help but feel like they took all their learnings from their last album, the most excellent “One Of Us Is The Killer,” and turned their collective backs on that wisdom. “Dissociation” is DEP’s most self-indulgent album in a long time; whether that’s a good thing depends on the listener. See the rest here
✦✦✦✧ This is one of those cases wherein the supergroup is very recognizably a sum of its constituents (you can very clearly strong echoes of DEP, Alice In Chains, The Mars Volta, and Mastodon on the track “No-One Is Innocent” in particular). But there’s novelty here too, a perverse cohesion that melds into something unlike anything presaged by the bandmember’s other bands. See the rest here
★☆☆☆ This is a wildly uneven effort on every level. Vocalists, energy levels, and styles change midsong without warning or reason. The low points, if we’re being very honest, is whenever Max Cavalera or Troy Sanders open their mouths to sing. (Remarkable as it may seem, Greg Puciato’s vocals are a breath of fresh air every time you get to hear them here.) See the rest here
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