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
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.
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