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Killing Joke
- Record Label: Fontana / Interscope / Spinefarm Records
- Release Date: Nov 22, 2010
- Summary: The 14th studio album from the UK masters of doom-and-gloom metal is their first album in 28 years featuring the band's original lineup.
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- Record Label: Fontana / Interscope / Spinefarm Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 8
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Mixed: 3 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Nov 19, 2010Absolute Dissent reaches a few new peaks, no doubt. The band is still challenging itself, much like art punk peers Wire, The Fall and Nick Cave have in the past decade.
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Dec 20, 2010They're playing at full strength, with the rhythm section pumping hard on the opening title track and the three that follow it.
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MojoNov 19, 2010From the title track's monolithic defiance down, this one's an out-of-the-blue, anti-establishment classic. [Nov. 2010, p. 106]
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Nov 19, 2010Apart from the highlights, the sound of Absolute Dissent is remarkably consistent-mostly straightforward rockers with some combination of tuneful singing and gravel-tinged bellowing over the top, well produced and tightly performed.
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Kerrang!Nov 19, 2010Thirty years on from the release of their earth-jolting, trouble-divining self-titled debut, Killing Joke show no signs of either mellowing or cracking a smile. [Sept. 25, 2010, p. 51]
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Alternative PressDec 16, 2010Instead of building on their strengths, frontman Jaz Coleman & Co. have backslid into subdued sogginess of the band's mid-period. [Jan 2010, p.91]
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Nov 30, 2010The tracks are long, grinding and relentlessly angry about the state of the world.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Feb 17, 2011
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Jun 26, 2011
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