You wouldn't be faulted if OX, Coalesce's first album in almost a decade, shocked you with its overall raw, vital energy. "Reunions" don't often work this well. That said, as I mentioned shortly before it's release in June, the new collection ranks with their classic 0:12 Revolution In Just Listening and, yup ... I really do prefer it to its elder. Riding that wave, the new seven-song OXEP, which came out today, continues the expansive, texturally expanded post-hardcore exploration of the full-l...
Stereogum — You wouldn't be faulted if OX, Coalesce's first album in almost a decade, shocked you with its overall raw, vital energy. "Reunions" don't often work this well. That said... more info