• Record Label: Mercury
  • Release Date: Feb 5, 2013
Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
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  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Jun 6, 2013
    70
    Kudos to Pure Love for taking a ludicrous concept of comedy commercialism and successfully straightening its face. [Feb 2013, p.95]
  2. Mar 4, 2013
    90
    There’s a sense of the theatrical blended in subtly among the very genuine declarations of self that pepper the rest of the album.
  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 21, 2013
    80
    [Pure Love] spiritedly serves up a full album's worth of way-above-par songs, which are radio friendly. [Mar 2013, p.109]
  4. 80
    Fans of melodic rock music with a tinge of punk attitude will find plenty to sing along to here.
  5. Feb 21, 2013
    70
    For a debut album it’s accomplished stuff, though like the Manics before them Anthems is not without its stodgier moments.
  6. Feb 21, 2013
    70
    Anthems is a confident, solid and ultimately hugely likable debut; Carter and Carroll have succeeded in producing something that on occasion genuinely lives up to its ambitious title.
  7. Feb 21, 2013
    80
    When it works, it runs like a stallion, but for fans whose allegiances lie with Carter and Carroll's previous incarnations, the engaging but jarring Anthems will probably prove awfully hard to digest.

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