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AlbumOct 20 / 201710 songs, 37m 8s
Post-Punk Indie Rock
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“You’re all that I want,” Makthaverskan’s Maja Milner sings with audible ache on “Vienna,” setting a yearning tone for the Swedish dream-pop band’s third album. But if Milner is consumed by despair, her band is drunk on adrenaline. On *III*, broken hearts are soothed by vapor-trailed guitar jangle and pulse-pounding rhythms that whip past in a blur, pushing anthems like “In My Dreams” to blissful peaks while infecting comedown ballads like “To Say It as It Is” with a sense of ecstatic restlessness.

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7.6 / 10

Soaring Swedish indie rockers Makthaverskan deliver anthems of heartache that anyone could love on their third album.

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Although musically fairly one-note, III is a perfectly solid post-punk album and lead vocalist Maja Milner gives a particularly impressive performance throughout.

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