★★★★★
Portland-via-Providence duo the Body advance metal in two vital, if not obviously complementary, ways. On their studio albums, they are rare arbiters of outside collaboration: They've brought in the likes of the Haxan Cloak, the Assembly of Light Choir, Robert Lowe of Lichens and Om, Braveyoung, and Thou to expand metal's capacity for exploring terror and inflicting self-prescribed misery...
- pitchfork.com
2015-11-24
★★★★★
This split record is truly a match made in hell -- doomy noise twosome the Body seem to thrive on making records with others, and their pairing with Neill Jameson of Krieg brings out the brutality and darkness in both groups, manifesting as an unholy cacophony of sound. The highlights here reward multiple listens and do a good job of balancing the sounds of both musical entities...
- exclaim.ca
2015-11-13
★★★★★
It is with complete affection for the pursuit of Gargantua that I profess to adore the combined efforts of The Body (members Chip King and Lee Buford) and Thou (members Bryan Funck, Mitch Wells, Andy Gibbs, Matthew Thudium and Josh Nee) and the EPs that this way less than holy union has brought unto us all, 2014's Released From Love and 2015's You, Whom I Have Always Hated, the latter of which will be discussed...
- www.noripcord.com
2015-03-13
★★★★★
Music collapsed into a kind of vapid singularity the day Selena Gomez sang "I love you like a love song." A song so lazy that it found the singer shunting off all the hard work of songwriting by using an entire genre of music to stand in for her emotions, it marked the tying off of a self-referential loop begun sometime in prehistory...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-02-12
★★★★★
When members of different bands join their colleagues on stage or in the studio, one of two things happens: the listener appreciates seeing a third party perform with the band, and it's exciting to see what they add to the mix, or the listener is outraged the band they enjoy so much would dare welcome that third party aboard. Even then, the high or low feeling dissipates as the next song comes on, and the complimentary or frustratingly foreign sound is removed...
- www.punknews.org
2015-02-11
★★★★★
Since the release of their inaugural collaboration EP, I've been wondering whether the sludge metal modus operandi of Thou would complement or suffocate the depraved compositional demeanor of The Body. Both acts harbor a fascination for the macabre, a sense of respect for their heavy metal heritage, and the ability to thrust their listeners into a blistering self-stylized pit of turmoil...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2015-01-27
★★★★★
The Body and Thou must get bored easily. During the last decade, both of these delirious doom metal squads have issued records at startling clips, the pace sometimes so speedy it's as if they're desperate to outrun the doomsdays of which they so often yell. Apart from a brief pause two years ago, New Orleans' Thou have offered a few titles a year, many of them splits or EPs that rerouted their sludge through small new capillaries...
- pitchfork.com
2015-01-27
★★★★★
"Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful." - Vic Chesnutt Taking the sentiment behind the above quote from singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt into account, it's easy to see why his powerful track 'Coward' (from his 2009 album At The Cut, released prior to his overdose on Christmas Day of the same year) is a complete fit for collaborators-in-sludge, The Body and Thou, who covered it for their 2014 vinyl-only EP Released From...
- thequietus.com
2015-01-15
★★★★★
The Body are outsiders in metal, a world obsessed with subgenres that doesn't always take kindly to those daring to colour outside the lines. Bassist and vocalist Chip King and drummer Lee Buford, both based in Portland, flirted with avant-garde structures on last year's stunning EP Master, We Perish and then tipped over into excess with its full-length follow-up, Christs, Redeemers, which came with a string section and vocal choir...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-05-07
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