David Comes To Life - Fucked Up
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Universal acclaim - based on 33 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings

  • Summary: The Toronto seven-piece release a four-act narrative album, as theatrical as it is musical.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 33
  2. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Jun 8, 2011
    100
    They're also bracingly potent and screamingly vital; David Comes To Life is the work of a band openly aspiring to be great, and pulling it off.
  2. Jun 28, 2011
    80
    It's a true testament to the band that its windswept glory-rock stays exhilarating for nearly 80 minutes.
  3. 80
    The eighteen tracks and eighty minutes presented here don't hold a candle to 2008′s The Chemistry of Common Life but I truly admire the tenacity of this outfit to push on toward such a lofty venture.
  4. Jun 16, 2011
    40
    Between the overlong, overstuffed songs and arrangements, ridiculous album concept and lyrical conceit, there's no room left for the vicious, hurtling energy that first impressed me on Hidden World's best songs.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. To say the very least, this album took me by surprise. When I heard that it was a hardcore punk album, I immediately didn't listen to it, at least as much as it's possible to immediately not do something. Then it won Spin's Album of the Year award, and I knew I had to listen to it.

    From the very first second the delay-drenched guitars hit, I was in awe. Honestly, I can recall the moment perfectly: I had just returned my books and was driving home for Christmas break, listening to the warmest, most inviting, and best punk I have ever heard in my life.

    It's catchy, it's inventive, it's raw, it's furious, and it's GREAT. Listen to this album. Just do it.
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  2. Give it four listens. It is loud and racous. It is hard to understand some of the lyrics. Every song has a heart and a primal beat and feeling. The best album of 2011 (if you can stomach noise). It is a movie in your head. It is the 12 year old kid playing air guitar in the mirror to the Who. It is a monolith. It is perfection. Expand
  3. j30
    8
    Compelling and epic are the two words I would use describe this record. It keeps getting better each time I listen to it. "The Other Shoe" and "The Queen of Hearts" are the two standouts. Expand
  4. TAE
    6
    Sounds like the Arcade Fire being fronted by the Ultimate Warrior. I enjoyed the music but it doesn't match up with such angst ridden vocals. I was never a hardcore punk fan but this doesn't exactly sound like a true punk rock record being that the music is rather tame. Expand

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