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First World Record

loudandquiet

7.0

“Oakland five-piece The World’s debut album jolts and jumps along to off-kilter drum beats and saxophone hooks for the entirety of its play time. The band’s wedding of metallic postpunk with matter-of-fact vocal chit-chattery works to create the uniquely propulsive sound honed so tightly on ‘First World Record.’ The follow up to The World’s debut EP, ‘Managerial Material,’ ‘First World Record’ is i”