{"id":7873,"date":"2022-05-02T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:49:07","slug":"crows-beware-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/crows-beware-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crows <br>Beware Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/crows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7874\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/crows.jpg\" alt=\"Crows, Beware Believers\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/crows.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/crows-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Having released a truly astonishing debut (one of <a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/the-agit-reader-top-10-of-2019\/\">our favorites of 2019<\/a>), Crows might have easily fallen into a sophomore slump, especially with the pandemic taking the wind out of many a band\u2019s sails and making the mere act of creation all the more difficult. But from the first ringing, lysergic notes of <i>Beware Believers<\/i> (Bad Vibrations Records), it is clear that Crows have been doing anything but slumping. The album comes on like a blast of white heat, taking the more vitriolic moments of <i>Silver Tongues<\/i> as a starting point for indulging their noisiest impulses.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, <i>Beware<\/i> is everything that its predecessor was but somehow feels more primal, like the band is out for blood this time. Singer James Cox seemingly had a few bees in his bonnet and you can hear it in songs like \u201cOnly Time,\u201d where he rants, \u201cI held my breath for so long now and I held my tongue for longer than I should have.\u201d His vitriol is matched by his bandmates&#8217; noisy emanations, cracking beats and a melee of guitar riffs creating a terse balance of tension and release. That tension is never relinquished, and on \u201cRoom 156,\u201d Cox sounds fit to kill as he bellows, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing left in here,\u201d over a riff sharp enough to cut glass. Meanwhile, on \u201cThe Servant,\u201d we&#8217;re treated to a revelation of sorts, as Cox repeatedly sings, \u201cI left God out in the rain.\u201d Crows never let up for an instant on <i>Beware<\/i>, leaving the listener feeling a little beat up, and all the better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having released a truly astonishing debut (one of our favorites of 2019), Crows might have easily fallen into a sophomore slump, especially with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,2529,2282],"class_list":["post-7873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-bad-vibrations-records","tag-crows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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