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Rolo Tomassi. All stitched together with the smoothest track flow of any Armed release yet. Feeling simultaneously familiar but totally inspired and unique, the competitive hardcore and pop duality of this LP gel together beautifully. They’re not an anti-thesis, they’re whole. It’s deconstructivist hardcore; Maximalist pop music pushed to its breaking point; a commentary on how the current culture has made music and art so easily accessible that it’s all now “pop.” That everything ...

Album review: The Armed – Ultrapop Hardcore collective The Armed embrace pop in all its forms for the hyper-intensity and all-out aggro of Ultrapop Words: Luke Morton To many fans of this thing we call rock, ​‘pop’ is something of a dirty word, perceived as a genre of music somehow beneath the artistic skill and prowess of other musicians who play guitar and shout a bit. This is, of course, nonsense, and the melting pot of pop is brimming with boundary-pushing and inventive artist...