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"In Spades" is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band The Afghan Whigs, released on May 5, 2017 on Sub Pop Records.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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In Spades is not a typical Afghan Whigs album. The band’s reunion album, 2014’s Do To The Beast, featured the band’s most accomplished and diverse arrangements in their impressive catalog. In Spades ups that ante by reiterating these qualities of its predecessor and refining them, tightening the songs up while sacrificing none of their range.
The Afghan Whigs of In Spades isn’t your father’s Afghan Whigs and isn’t even Do To The Beast’s Afghan Whigs. What they are is a fleeting manifestation of all their former selves as Dulli has transcended the desire to reinvent The Whigs’ wheels, he simply remembers its past as it was. With any decades-old band recently reunited, it’s impossible to ignore the question of whether what we’ve last heard is the last we will ever hear of them. Regardless, In Spades sees Greg Dulli synthesizing all of his musical and thematic elements seemingly into everything he’s ever wanted.
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