YHWH Nailgun compress the whole universe into eleven minutes on Magazine

YHWH Nailgun’s Magazine arrives on 11 June with a runtime that sounds almost like a dare: ten songs, eleven minutes, no room for decorative furniture. The New York quartet’s new album follows their breakthrough debut and makes brevity feel less like a gimmick than a discipline. In an era where many albums are stretched to feed the streaming machine, Magazine moves in the opposite direction. It compresses every twitch, scream, groove and rhythmic fracture until the whole thing feels like a live wire in a small room. That is what makes it exciting. YHWH Nailgun are not trying to be minimalist in a polite art-school way. They are using shortness as pressure. The record feels dense, urgent and strangely complete, like a band deciding that the best way to say more is to stop before the listener can get comfortable.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yhwh-nailgun-magazine/