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There’s nothing lucky about the lottery according to sludgy Philly shoegaze revivalists They Are Gutting a Body of Water. On <i>LOTTO</i>, they rage against the circumstances of the modern person, birthed into what is meant to be the most prosperous time in world history but littered with more man-made atrocities and horrors than most sane people can deal with. The music on <i>LOTTO</i> is angry, but where They Are Gutting a Body of Water make their mark is in the willingness to persist, a defiance that courses through this record. Amongst the crashing cymbals, monotone screeds against modern capitalism, and thunderous guitar melodies, a stubbornness peeks through like a sliver of sunshine in a thunderstorm. This isn’t optimism, but a desire to fight for those no longer able. On the emo-leaning “american food,” they incorporate turntablism and the scraggly indie rock of early Broken Social Scene as the lyrics scan like the most poetic rest-stop bathroom graffiti imaginable; an indictment of the villainy at America’s core: “The benefit of believing you’re bad/Is that you get somebody to blame.”

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