…With 2015’s Untitled and 2018’s Only Love, the band zeroed in on a brutal and ballistic yet polarizingly art-damaged form of hardcore. Their extremely intense music boasted a kind of blunt-force accessibility.
…The Armed pushed their conceptual elements to the brink with 2021’s ULTRAPOP, an album cycle where the rollout threatened to overwhelm the music but the music was too overwhelming to be denied. Then, with 2023’s Perfect Saviours, they delivered what band mastermind Tony Wolski called “our completely unironic, sincere effort to create the biggest, greatest rock album of the 21st century.” That endeavor failed on its own terms; Perfect Saviours was good, but it wasn’t as gripping as the albums that came before it,…

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