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Texas-based shredders Polyphia boast that their third full-length album, New Levels New Devils, is “probably the best music in the history of music.” That’s typical of the tongue-in-cheek tone the band often adopts in their online social presence. But make no mistake — New Levels New Devils isn’t a joke.
Polyphia have come a long way from their djent roots. While it may disappoint fans hoping for Renaissance Part 2, New Levels New Devils continues the more avant-garde, genre-bending approach of the band’s 2017 EP, The Most Hated — they even enlisted up-and-coming hip-hop and electronic producers like Y2K (Killy, Yung Bans) and Judge (Migos & Marshmello, Young Thug) to help create the album.
This current amalgamation of prog-hip-hop-trap-metal-whatever is uncharted territory that may leave the listener asking “What fucking genre of music is this?”, but that’s not a bad thing. The drums, by Clay Aeschliman, may generally sound more electronic than they have in the past, but the same annoyingly catchy, bombastic guitar-work that make Polyphia great remains intact.