From the album Koi No Yokan, featuring the track “Goon Squad,” which is apparently not a Plies cover…

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Will Adams: Scattered showers, more like. The true tempest comes in around the four minute mark, when the rhythm destabilizes and the guitars churn angrily. But then the languid chorus returns, and we’re abruptly plopped on the ground after six whole minutes.
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Jonathan Bradley: The crisp roar is is invigorating in a way contemporary modern rock this cleanly produced rarely manages. The six minutes of stasis is not.
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Alfred Soto: The intensity of the riffage compensates for boring chords, neither one of which answers the question why I’d listen to these guys over Rage Against The Machine. Maybe because Rage avoids phrases like “the ancient arrival,” not to mention “thrust.”
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Brad Shoup: It’s as pretty as Deftones will ever allow, which means Moreno strings up vibrato-free angst over bruisepoke guitars that throw themselves into a seawall. It’s not the apocalypse, more like the graphic-novel adaptation.
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Anthony Easton: This has been the year where I have discovered hard rock that wasn’t metal. Even with the growl, this strikes me as more hard rock than metal . It might be the sub-Morrison lyrics, the formal guitars for the sake of guitars, or the simple fact that I really want to smoke dope and air guitar in my backyard after listening to this–which makes me feel like the 14 year old boy I never was. 
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Jonathan Bogart: I guess someone has to be Stone Temple Pilots.
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