E-flat tuning, vibrato, chorus, and wah petals accent huge power chords. Variant vocal delivery slices through cacophonous hailstorms of intense distortion and rage. Regretably, I'm a nerd and have nothing better to do than monitor the cumulative hardcore points found in the first three songs of Gravity Wins Again . So, I'm unscientifically estimating that a high hardcore points score equals a Pitchfork rating of roughly 8.0. Unfortunately, the second movement of this album isn't as good.
Sane people are too busy bandaging their ears.
Instead, it contains three new tracks and four old ones that were originally released as One King Down's debut, Absolve . The only reason I can possibly fathom for this is that the band wants to show how much they've progressed since their early days. The Absolve session receives a Pitchfork rating of 0.8. I think the titles are pretty self-explanatory. This was a band obsessed with images of massacre, death, and slaughter with no explanation whatsoever.