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Muck - Your Joyous Future review



Reviewer:
7.6

3 users:
7
Band: Muck
Album: Your Joyous Future
Release date: February 2015


01. Provoke Me
02. Blástí mig
03. My City
04. Time
05. Blind And Bent
06. Waiting
07. Martröð
08. Blissless
09. Here Comes The Man
10. Today I'm Hungry

Nothing generic can come out of a country that produced Björk.

Before jumping at my throat, I have nothing against Björk, wacky music, or Iceland. I just love to joke. Still, y'all up there seriously have sniffed way too much volcanic ash.

At times rather traditional sounding with d-beat intros and furious straightforward aggression, and sounding like complete maniacs at others; Muck don't surprise the most with the use of their dissonance or their geyser-like sudden bursts of violence. What makes this album so interesting is their unique sense of style, which instead of making you want to align numerous specific sub-genres to look all cool and knowledgeable, makes you feel all shitty for not being able to pin-point all the influences. For reviewing purposes, and to ease the suspense, I decided to go for mathcore to describe (most of) their sound, but Muck are one of the most coherent and refreshing mash-up of numerous rock, punk, and hardcore music I've heard in a little while.

Rather a-melodic at first, Your Joyous Future will be a hard listen for new punk/mathcore aficionados, or simply for people who don't like their music to be Icelandic crazy. However, if you pay attention and/or - hopefully - come back to visit the album a few times, you'll realise the band never uses complicated tropes, and the apparent uncontrolled ruckus is actually a collection of simple and almost catchy short songs. Dirty buzzing guitars, an audible bass, a simple drum kit, screams, dissonance, unexpected tempo shifts, a few good ideas, and even a Nirvana-like grunge attitude and sound at times (!) were enough to win me over.

So yeah, I'm out of Icelandic jokes, so I wish these guys a Joyous Future and I suggest you just go Muck yourself now.


Rating breakdown
Performance: 8
Songwriting: 7
Originality: 7
Production: 8

Written by Ilham | 03.03.2015




Comments

Comments: 6   Visited by: 113 users
03.03.2015 - 07:20
Susan
Smeghead
I'd given this a short try and didn't love it, but now seeing your review I'm intrigued to give it a full spin. You call them coherent and refreshing; two words I can get behind!

I had a cassette of Bjork's Post growing up, and I loved the release from black metallers Sinmara last year (not to mention one of my favorite cover arts of the year). So I suppose Icelandic music has a good record with me so far
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03.03.2015 - 09:04
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
I love losts of icelandic bands actually (including Björk) so I'm obviously gonna like this crazy shit. Thanks for the review.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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03.03.2015 - 12:42
BloodTears
ANA-thema
I want to listen to it! Bandcamp is your friend
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29

Like you could kiss my ass.


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03.03.2015 - 12:46
Rating: 7
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by BloodTears on 03.03.2015 at 12:42

I want to listen to it! Bandcamp is your friend

There's a link at the bottom of the review! (If that was what you were hinting at ). Enjoy!
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14.03.2015 - 20:16
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Written by Ilham on 03.03.2015 at 12:46

There's a link at the bottom of the review! (If that was what you were hinting at ). Enjoy!

Why the fuck do bandcamp streams sound so horrible sometimes?? Thanks for the review.
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14.03.2015 - 21:22
Rating: 7
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by tea[m]ster on 14.03.2015 at 20:16

Why the fuck do bandcamp streams sound so horrible sometimes?? Thanks for the review.

It's always at 128 bitrate, if I remember correctly. No probies .
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