by
Foals
- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Release Date: Mar 8, 2019
Buy Now
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Mar 12, 2019Foals’ problem is that they have the same ambitions as just about every other large-font rock band these days and thus the same pitfalls. Making apolitical art feels borderline negligent, and yet it’s easier than ever to feel desensitized to the doomsaying when everything just seems to get incrementally worse.
-
Mar 8, 2019Bless ‘em for their ambition, and too bad it didn’t yield more than this muddled set.
-
Mar 6, 2019A collection of leaden dance-rock, ponderous show-boating, and thankfully, brief flashes of inventiveness. ... This record's promise is blunted by its workmanlike enthusiasm. [Feb-Apr 2019, p.108]
-
MojoMar 1, 2019Part 1 veers from the abrasive, Stooges-style rock that characterised much of 2015's What Went Down. [Apr 2019, p.86]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 95 out of 111
-
Mixed: 10 out of 111
-
Negative: 6 out of 111
-
Mar 8, 2019
-
Mar 8, 2019
-
May 9, 2019