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6 September 2024

Ghent, Belgium – photo by Turn Up The Volume

NYC’s maniacal, clamorous and earthshaking-explosive industrial metal-core bulldozer UNIFORM, fronted by Dante’s inferno voice Michael Berdan launched their new album,
their 5th one. They called it AMERICAN STANDARD and they released it via Sacred
Bones.

LP artwork

The record counts only 4 tracks but the sensational, bone-chilling, breathtaking,
hair-rising, demonic, flabbergasting, brutal and sledgehammering title track lasts
for 21 maddening minutes.

Press info: “American Standard is surely Uniform’s most thematically accomplished
and musically self assured album to date. Sections spiral and explode. Motifs drift off into obscurity before reasserting themselves with new power. Genres collide and burst open, forming something idiosyncratic and new.

There’s a grandeur, due in part to the addition of Interpol bassist Brad Truax alongside
the percussive push and pull of returning drummer Michael Sharp and longtime touring drummer Michael Bloom, marking his Uniform recorded debut here. However, this magnificence is most clearly attributable to the scale and power of guitarist and founder Ben Greenberg’s arrangements, matching ever elegantly to the intense lyrical subject matter.

Spin says: “American Standard is never corny or contrived.
It’s the year’s most intimate, most savage feel-bad music.”

TUTV: This is the titanic soundtrack for a movie called ‘The Decline Of The Divided States
Of America.’ Well, the movie will be made if Trump gets reelected. He’ll destroy the country, he will crush America‘s democracy, he’ll erase the Stars and Stripes. It is/was/ and always be Trump First.

Wake up America,
get together NOW
and save the USA.

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