THE ARMED NEW SINGLE 'ALL FUTURES' PRESS COVERAGE


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"'All Futures' is melodic, technical, squelchy—it features Troy Van Leeuwen from Queens of the Stone Age and a hook that’s shiny and immense." – Pitchfork
 

 "Lead single "All Futures" wildly features guitar work from Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age, which is somehow the least interesting thing about it…It's pop music that doesn't sacrifice a modicum of hardcore's snaggletoothed aggression." – Entertainment Weekly

 

"...a satisfying noise-pop blitzkrieg all the same." – Stereogum

 

"Over the last 12 years, mysterious hardcore collective the Armed have fascinated and confounded with some of the wildest albums, live shows and videos in heavy music." – Revolver

“...The Armed walk the walk, as you can hear on ULTRAPOP's killer lead single "ALL FUTURES," which exists somewhere between noise punk and post-metal but really can't be pinned down and is mainly just a total sensory overload.” – Brooklyn Vegan



"The Armed’s instrumental firepower is in direct proportion to their ambition, as the song also seeks to catalyze ULTRAPOP’s namesake micro-genre, somehow managing to leave room for melody amidst its sweep-you-off-your-feet squalls of sound." – PASTE


“The gang vocals, sonic treatments, the sheer momentum and force of the song is the best kind of endorphin rush, one that as much indulgent as it is transcendent.” – Treble

 

"The first best thing about Ultrapop, the coming album by heavy punk genre benders, The Armed, is how much it's going to be confusing listeners who will be expecting something different based on the album's cover and title. The other best thing about it is how skillfully the music is being transformed into something weighty and frantic after having been steadily based on an indeed pop underpinning." – Destroy // Exist

 

"Ultrapop is the genre of music that said album features. It reaches the same extremities of sonic expression as the furthest depths of metal, noise, and otherwise “heavy” counterculture music subgenres but finds its foundation firmly in pop music and pop culture. As is always The Armed’s mission, it seeks only to create the most intense experience possible, a magnification of all culture, beauty, and things." – Glide Magazine

 

 

 

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