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    Aug 10, 2020 4 minutes

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    THE FRONT BOTTOMS

    In Sickness & In Flames

    FUELED BY RAMEN / WARNER

    After 2015’s delivered some of The Front Bottoms’ quirkiest and most experimental gear to date, its follow-up (2017’s ) was a major slip down the staircase: tired, stagnant, and its musical departures sounding far too forced for comfort (especially given the album’s narrative of midlife crises and coveted nostalgia). doesn’t just throw singer/strummer Brian Sella and drummer Mat Uychich back into chaos mode – not even their fiercest obsessives could predict the super-manic rollercoaster of shred and synth this album doles in excess – it has them downright overdosing on eccentricity. Make no mistake: this record is truly, utterly, uncontrollably off-the-rails. And it’s .

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