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"Death Song" is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Black Angels. It was released on April 21, 2017 on the Partisan label.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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The Black Angels have explored many different modes in psychedelia over the past 10 years. Death Song, their fifth full-length, is both unlike anything they’ve done before and also the most purely Black Angels album they have released. It’s as if the Texas psych-garage mainstays have now fully mapped the edges of their sound and that this process has allowed them to return with an extreme vengeance to the dead center of what they are. From the opener “Currency,” there is a feeling of something falling into place and clicking.
In some ways, Death Song is a return to basics: The reverb-shrouded blues riffs of guitarist Christian Bland, frontman Alex Maas’s effects-treated tribal wail and Stephanie Bailey’s thundering drums. In other ways, it’s their most truly progressive work yet, characterized by bold, complex, even labyrinthine compositions. It’s inspired by ‘60s psychedelia but without glancing backward too much.
Death Song is an album about fear, and the violence it engenders; love and the lengths we’ll go to to protect the things we love. --- pastemagazine.com
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