Liturgy: Aesthethica – review

(Thrill Jockey)Is no genre safe from the dread hand of the Brooklyn hipster? Black metal – once famous for its homicidal tendencies, but more recently the focus of some wildly experimental and compelling acts – is the sound the New York four-piece Liturgy have adopted as a template for their lofty notions of "transcedentalism" and "ecstatic annihilation" (frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has even published a book on the subject). But while their second album ticks off plenty of genre tropes â€...

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