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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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Apr 21, 2022A disappointing follow up to a great debut album. It all feels pretentious and drab.
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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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Dec 26, 2020the album is good and addictive beautiful vocals and poetic lyrics and sound is very nice
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Nov 29, 2020
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Nov 20, 2020A Hero's Death can be summarised as a small collection of great songs in a sea of dreary filler. Although Fontaines do well in broadening their sound, and taking their listener from slow, soft poetry to loud and intense riffs, there is a clear lack of direction like we see on Dogrel. For me, this is a shift in the wrong direction for Fontaines. However, the title track is fantastic
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Nov 19, 2020
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Sep 6, 2020Worthies (5/11):
- I Don't Belong
- Televised Mind
- A Lucid Dream
- You Said
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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 10, 2020it seems like I'm listening to Joy Division, and Radiohead at the same time..
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Jul 31, 2020
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Aug 4, 2020
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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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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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Jul 31, 2020A 3 rating is high for this, out of tune, badly produced, songs chucked together with children's poetry, insult to bands of history... If you want to hear something out of tune at least with some form of melody and composition go back to Hope of the States. Nothing new, nothing good
Awards & Rankings
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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.