Material Control

by Glassjaw

Material Control cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 December 2017
  • Label: Century Media
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:40
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Daryl Palumbo, Billy Rymer, Ariel Telford, Justin Beck, George Reynolds, Chad Hasty

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released after a fifteen-year hiatus from the full-length format, 'Material Control' features a dense, percussive sound dominated by thick basslines and aggressive rhythmic shifts. The album emphasizes the technical interplay between founding members Daryl Palumbo and Justin Beck, moving away from the more melodic leanings of their earlier work toward a gritty, abrasive aesthetic. It serves as a modern evolution of the Long Island post-hardcore sound, prioritizing textures of dissonance and mechanical force.

Genres

Descriptors: male vocalist, dissonant, noisy, political, technical, rhythmic, conscious, complex, harsh vocals, piercing, abrasive, percussive, dynamic, experimental, DIY

Tracklist

  1. new white extremity (4:25)
  2. shira (3:57)
  3. citizen (2:21)
  4. golgotha (3:04)
  5. strange hours (4:09)
  6. bastille day (2:22)
  7. pompeii (3:49)
  8. bibleland 6 (3:30)
  9. closer (2:38)
  10. my conscience weighs a ton (2:44)
  11. material control (1:25)
  12. cut and run (2:10)

Credits

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