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The three-piece Bully Mammoth have been one of Portland's more mercurial rock acts for years now, hurtling between noise, cathartic drone, fuzzed-out college rock, and weird freakouts weaving in and out of pop conventions. Amassing several years’ recording output, including last year’s ambitious noisy/beautiful odyssey Let It Bully, the group have been a wild ride. But most wild rides slow down, and this one has gotten better as it has. 

Over two EPs of seven total tracks released this summer (the band’s fifth and sixth EPs in total — they’re fans of the format), Bully Mammoth have crossed some sort of threshold. Is it accessibility? Maybe. Sam Rich, Kevin McPhee, and Derek Gierhan have been interesting since the beginning, but their music has occasionally seemed like the sort of band that comes with a caveat. ("You’ll mostly like them.") Here, they’re much more cohesive, fusing those discrete elements into a sound that listeners will find a lot more accessible, but retains the energy, intensity and experimentalism they’ve had since the beginning. 

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