Motherfucker, I Am Both: "Amen" And "Hallelujah"...

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"Motherfucker; I am Both: "Amen' and 'Hallelujah'... is one of a kind. Shearling bolts from the gates with the unbridled release of their debut album. (...) This album is barefoot, traversing a road graveled with ice cubes or hot coal. The end is nowhere in sight. Every feverish step is a poem. Repeated sessions of wide open improvisation have developed and turned loose an instinctive musical chemistry which encircles the bandmates and pervades Motherfucker. Its spirit scratches the ceilings of heaven and stirs the depths of hell. Horse, saw, and landmarks hidden in the plain sight of Middle America are among Kent's muses in preceding work. Their recurrence here serves to shape an array of colorful potencies that charge Shearling's snowballing mytho. The listener is cornered into suspension that reframes the repulsive. Jarring subject matter is garnished with candor and cast as visages of the sublime, all while keeping vulgarity intact. We hear its cold blood boil over. Motherfucker is hyperbolic, unrelenting, and stark naked. Shearling is sincere against all odd." .

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