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Mar 5, 2013The heightened sense of immediacy is hard to keep up, but Bastille does it remarkably well, resulting in a debut that’s as infectious as it is dramatically powerful.
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Q MagazineMar 11, 2013Bad Blood feels strangely anemic.[Apr 2013, p.95]
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Mar 4, 2013All this greedy grasping means the London newcomers can’t really get a firm grip on anything, meaning Bad Blood comes out with about as much identity as a Facebook commenter without a profile picture.
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Mar 1, 2013The record is overweight with memorable tunes, epic and intimate at the same time.
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Mar 7, 2013There's occasional unintentional amusement in the lyrics.
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Mar 1, 2013Sometimes you are left wishing that the songs could be left to breathe a little more for themselves.
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Sep 5, 2013There’s nothing inherently wrong with this too-many-feelings, heart-on-your-sleeve approach; it’s just that, played out over the course of an entire album (or on the airwaves, over the course of several years), the whole thing starts to feel a bit contrived.
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Mar 1, 2013The beautiful part about Bad Blood is that it is both entirely predictable yet completely disarming.
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Jul 25, 2013Lyrics are corny and sometimes funny.
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Mar 4, 2013Its repertoire of tricks--piano and falsetto sob-rock, yodel-along backing vocals, hands-in-the-air breakdowns--is entirely predictable, but generally redeemed by strong, surging melodies.
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Mar 1, 2013Bad Blood is a really gratifying debut that feels like a solution.
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Sep 9, 2013For everything Smith lacks in wordsmithing, his bandmates make up for in straight up dramatic songwriting.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 128 out of 151
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Mixed: 10 out of 151
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Negative: 13 out of 151
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