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Kerrang!Oct 29, 2012All We Love We Leave Behind will sit alongside the very best. [6 Oct 2012, p.53]
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Oct 12, 2012As daring as it is confident and poignant in its execution, this album captures both the Converge we know and love and a Converge we're not quite accustomed to--leaving us with an album arguably as striking and challenging as anything the band has done before.
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Oct 16, 2012All We Love We Leave Behind entices kinetic release in every possible way, irrational and otherwise, allowing unchecked ventilation as means for escape through a medium that has never sounded so engaging.
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Oct 11, 2012All We Love We Leave Behind stands tall within Converge's discography as yet another glowing example of how to make art out of aggression.
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Oct 11, 2012One of the most spectacular and intense albums the group has released yet.
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Oct 8, 2012Converge has become synonymous with consistency, and the band's latest effort proves that after seven albums they still have what it takes to put their listeners through hell in the best kind of way.
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Oct 16, 2012All We Love We Leave Behind occupies the unruly intersection of metal, punk and progressive music, weeding out the weaknesses the band perceives in each genre and saving the good stuff for its rigorously constructed songs.
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Oct 12, 2012There's never a dull moment across AWLWLB's 38 minutes. It's all peaks.
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Oct 16, 2012This is pure, unadulterated energy, seething catharsis taken out on throats, fingers, fretboards and drum heads by a band going on 22 years, and showing no signs of weakness or irrelevancy.
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Oct 9, 2012While All We Love lacks cohesion in spots, it solidifies Converge's position as one of hardcore's most progressive yet soulful stalwarts.
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Q MagazineNov 21, 2012Thrilling stuff. [Dec 2012, p.109]
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Oct 26, 2012All We Love We Leave Behind is proof positive that the incandescent flame of Converge's fury is fully under their direct control, and because of this ability to harness their elemental power, the Converge of 2012 sound just as fearless and peerless as ever.
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Alternative PressOct 19, 2012Ballou has captured the genuine sound of its four members together in a room, less of a monster in your closet and more of a brilliant basement show. [Nov 2012, p.90]
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Oct 12, 2012That Converge can dabble in so many styles and still inherently come out sounding like themselves is what makes All We Love work.
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Oct 9, 2012All We Love We Leave Behind retains the fire of Jane Doe and harnesses everything they've learned since, combining to create something unrelenting, brutal, and never short of magnificent.
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Oct 8, 2012This eighth studio album sees the four-piece climb the next step of the stairway of relevance.
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Oct 8, 2012Converge have managed to once again best their only competition: themselves.
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Oct 8, 2012All We Love We Leave Behind, the group's eighth studio album, manages to summon that same level of intensity [as 2009's Axe to Fall] without the aid of a single mercenary.
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Oct 8, 2012By trading nonsensical time signatures and atonal bursts for fluidity and stadium rock, they've subtracted from their former wretchedness.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 63 out of 69
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Mixed: 2 out of 69
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Negative: 4 out of 69
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Oct 12, 2012
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Jun 15, 2014
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Aug 25, 2022