Maserati - Rehumanizer villainous games 'The Hit' is the result

'The Hit' is the result of refined musical synchronicity and reveling in vintage straight-to-tape recording techniques

The folky clean vocal parts of Mikael Åkerfeldt and his harsh death growls have been growing over the years

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The five-day "marathon" sessions—with work starting in the early evening and continuing until dawn—yielded a wide variety of material including a spirited rendition of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away

there aren't any throwaway numbers to sabotage the album's momentum

Maserati - Rehumanizer villainous games 'The Hit' is the resultMaserati are a band obsessed with process. Specifically, they're obsessed with the process of marrying the past to the future retro futurists hellbent on forging Krautrock and classic rock into one motorik, monolithic vehicle. Rehumanizer is the most accomplished product of that process to date, a marriage of man and machine that plays like a supergroup comprised of Gary Numan, Cluster, and Pink Floyd. Building songs up bit by bit and breaking them