Under Pressure
Come Clean
Escape Artist
With lyrics like “sing no songs of joy/where love and hope are failing,” Under Pressure’s Come Clean is at once mesmeric and depressing. A shift towards a nihilistic sound is an omen of things to come. Raging thrash and dense sludge might not come close to describing the misanthropic and sublime moments of this record.
Mark Black
categories: Best of the year (2007)
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.