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"Amo" is the sixth studio album by British rock band Bring Me the Horizon. It was released on 25 January 2019 through Sony / RCA. It was produced by frontman Oliver Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish, and was written and recorded primarily in Los Angeles.
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Rock can be a cage in many ways. It’s relatively rare for those from the heavier fringes of the genre to successfully pass through to another. If they do, they run risk of dampening the fire that first found them fame, alienating those loyal to the scene… or both. Now six albums and 15 years into their career, Bring Me The Horizon are a million miles from their deathcore beginnings.
‘Medicine’ boasts the most commercial moment on the album, an anthem about the regret that comes from unconditional love in a doomed relationship. ‘Mother Tongue’ is as pure a ‘lighters in the air’ love song as you could imagine; ‘In The Dark’ is a searing electro-rock anti-ballad detailing Sykes’ discovery of the infidelity of his previous partner; and the soaring James Bond-esque orchestral flourishes on closer ‘I Don’t Know What To Say’ aches with his admiration and grief for a childhood friend he recently lost from cancer.
The various dark and mechanical intermission tracks on the album make for the most experimental peaks and exciting signposts to the future, but nothing compares to ‘Nihilist Blues’, a robotic and apocalyptic blast of Eurodance featuring guest vocals and mad noises from art-pop icon Grimes. It’s proof alone that this band can do what they want and get away with it. There’s nothing as exciting as a surprise that pays off. It ain’t rocket science, it ain’t heavy metal, it’s just class songwriting.
Reviewed by Fiona Garden for nme.com.
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