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Kowloon Walled City (2019)
Oakland, CA
Convulsing slowly at the border between noise-rock and post-metal lies the slow rot of Kowloon Walled City. The band’s rage is of the bleary-eyed, resigned variety, doled out at the sludge-clogged speed of inevitability. Their tunes are heavy enough to pop a vertebrae, but rendered with a thoughtful precision that keeps indifference at bay.