I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer.

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I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer.
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 11, 2018 (2018-05-11)
Recorded2017
StudioMachines with Magnets
Genre Noise, power electronics [1]
Length49:35
Label Thrill Jockey
Producer Seth Manchester, Keith Souza
The Body chronology
A Home on Earth
(2017)
I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer.
(2018)
Mental Wounds Not Healing
(2018)

I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer. is the sixth full-length studio album by the American experimental metal band the Body. The album was released on May 11, 2018, through Thrill Jockey. The band have described the album as their most ambitious to date, featuring samples of their own past recordings. [2] The album's title is an excerpt from Virginia Woolf's suicide letter. [3] [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Album of the Year76/100 [5]
Metacritic 75/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The A.V. Club B+ [3]
Consequence of Sound B [1]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [4]
The Line of Best Fit 7/10 [8]
Loud and Quiet 7/10 [9]
Louder Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Metal Injection8/10 [11]
Pitchfork 7.8/10.0 [12]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [13]

I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 75, based on 9 reviews. [6] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 12 reviews. [5]

Pitchfork included I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer. on its list of 2018's best metal albums. [14]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Last Form of Loving"3:34
2."Can Carry No Weight"4:30
3."Partly Alive"4:22
4."The West Has Failed"3:38
5."Nothing Stirs"5:55
6."Off Script"5:28
7."An Urn"4:03
8."Blessed, Alone"3:58
9."Sickly Heart of Sand"5:35
10."Ten Times a Day, Every Day, a Stranger"8:32
Total length:49:35

Personnel

I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer. credits adapted from AllMusic. [7]

The Body
Additional musicians
Production

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