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Universal acclaim- based on 55 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 46 out of 55
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Mixed: 6 out of 55
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Negative: 3 out of 55
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Dec 26, 2020the album is good and addictive beautiful vocals and poetic lyrics and sound is very nice
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Jul 31, 2020
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Nov 12, 2021Fantastic second album where the band mature before our eyes with a collection of songs that feel bigger, older, wiser. Outstanding.
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Aug 3, 2020An incredible amount of heart is within this record. All of the lyrics are hard hitting, even more so in the climate of the world today.
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Nov 29, 2020
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Aug 3, 2020In "A Night at Montrose, Dublin" live, you can see Grian Chatten wearing a Pogues t-shirt. Just saying.
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Aug 10, 2020it seems like I'm listening to Joy Division, and Radiohead at the same time..
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Aug 29, 2020I really enjoyed the album. The band's influences are very clear. Unlike the first album, i didn't find the sound very original, but still I think they did a great job. Can't wait to hear more stuff from these guys.
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Aug 4, 2020Though falling short of revelatory, a few rotations of A Hero’s Death brings some good news. Outgrowing Joy Division and overblown inverted paddywhackery, it’s a largely nuanced and, most blessedly of all, believable affair.
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Aug 3, 2020Many of Fontaines’ key traits remain: the ability of this young Dublin outfit to retread familiar post-punk ground but with a tensile urgency all their own; and the sardonic Irish tones of Grian Chatten, whose affected blankness speaks volumes.
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Aug 3, 2020A Hero's Death is not about growth: it's a band assessing where they stand as rising up-and-comers and having the impulse to express themselves differently. Maybe their sulking comes with a bit of affectation, but at least it's a convincing portrait of keeping true to themselves—soaking in everything that surrounds them.