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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 ...

Is it too early to call the AOTY for 2021 yet? 

08.02.21 | Alex Sievers Come on feel the noise of The Armed on ‘All Futures.’ The Armed make a beautifully obtuse and cacophonous racket. Short of just lazily and lamely calling it “music,” I always refer to their releases as a kind of “experimental-hardcore and noise-pop,” as it’s the closest articulation of what they create. Especially when showing brand new initiates this confounding band’s work and when talking about their exceptional 2018 LP, ‘ Beyond all that genre lines...