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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014The allure and immediacy of the songs is remarkable, the stuff that translates into an instant classic. [Sep 2014, p.94]
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Aug 12, 2014The songs on Get Hurt do all the talking for him, loud and proud, crashing and bashing into the night, taking heartache and turning it into triumph. Pure rock ’n’ roll.
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Aug 5, 2014It’s disheartening that the album isn’t the game-changing record Fallon promised, and it’s too bad that it doesn’t have the thesis-statement cohesion of albums like The 59 Sound and American Slang. But the songs are still great, the production is still excellent, and the performances of the band members have rarely been in finer form.
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MagnetSep 18, 2014The Jersey quartet offers its most effective heartland punk cocktail to date, but shakes and stirs the concoction with new influences and musical approaches. [No. 113, p.56]
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Kerrang!Aug 19, 2014These songs do not merely take a cursory glance at varied and disparate styles, but are, in fact, detailed and carefully conceived excavations. [2 Aug 2014, p.52]
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Aug 12, 2014Get Hurt shows that so long as they're passionate about their music, it doesn't matter where the band are getting their inspiration from, because genuinely caring about something is always compelling.
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Aug 19, 2014It’s not the band’s greatest, most spirited or unifying; it’s not The ’59 Sound or American Slang. Rather, Get Hurt represents the exorcism and the catharsis that needed to transpire.
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Aug 19, 2014Made with Arctic Monkeys producer Mike Crossey, Get Hurt is a fresh, anthemic striving--further from E Street, driven by epic metal guitars.
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Aug 18, 2014His [singer Brian Fallon] dramatic vocals might be in full force, but conspicuous by their absence are The Gaslight Anthem's usual lyrical canvases of Americana, save for a couple of brief glimpses of the old dive bar-dwelling, jukebox-thumping badasses in the pair of back-to-back weepies that close the album.
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Aug 5, 2014While they felt the need to force the issue, beneath those jarring, incongruous riffs lies some rock ‘n’ roll of the purest kind.
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Aug 12, 2014The Gaslight Anthem deserve credit for stretching so far on Get Hurt; it’s just too bad the band spreads out in so many directions without committing to any of them.
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Aug 7, 2014Get Hurt may go down as The Gaslight Anthem's worst album to date, but that's not much of an assessment: a difficult Gaslight record is still a really good album, and it's commendable to experiment, evolve, or otherwise try something new.
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MojoAug 20, 2014Get Hurt proves the balance between The Gaslight Anthem's Springsteenesque heroism and their punk fire is key to keeping them from tumbling into the trite. [Sep 2014, p.88]
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Aug 15, 2014Breaking away from their by now trademark South Jersey, cruising with the radio on brand of punk rock that first got them noticed, the band is likely to alienate some early fans with Get Hurt. In doing so, however, The Gaslight Anthem is doing much more to preserve the band in the long run, evolving at a steady, but satisfying clip.
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Aug 12, 2014The band has framed Get Hurt as a shift in its Springsteen-meets-Replacements sound, but they're overselling things a tad: only a couple of songs, like the title track, truly feel all that different from their last couple of records.
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Aug 11, 2014The music on Get Hurt is broader and more muscular. It feels like music made from the outside in, not the other way.
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Aug 11, 2014It’s a good record, just one unlikely to ignite the true love its predecessors did.
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Aug 5, 2014That’s not to say that Get Hurt isn’t a good album, with some excellent songs on it. But, if you’re looking for more of the blue collar punk of the band’s early years, you might initially be underwhelmed by what it has to offer.
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UncutAug 5, 2014Excessive emoting is unfortunately typical of the record's exhausting inclination toward overwrought histrionics. [Sep 2014, p.74]
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Under The RadarSep 5, 2014Ultimately the result is varying from a group known for its tightness and intricacy. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.81]
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Aug 13, 2014The verbal intensity and reaching for the back rows attitude seldom pauses long enough for the listener to catch their breath.
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Aug 13, 2014Get Hurt is the most brooding, ashen release yet, and not quite with their usual sombre charm.
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Aug 18, 2014Get Hurt sounds like The Gaslight Anthem trying to figure out what kind of band they want to be.
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Oct 30, 2014A stylistically diverse collection that reaches for the stars, but can't touch the gold standard of the Jersey boys' 2010 hit American Slang.
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Q MagazineAug 28, 2014Get Hurt is neither weird, nor, unfortunately, all that wonderful. [Sep 2014, p.116]
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Aug 11, 2014Their fifth album is a disappointment, however, with the 12 tracks here smoothed of any interesting rough edges and aimed squarely at stadium crowds.
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Aug 7, 2014The results should have at least been interesting, but Get Hurt is nothing but the same old overblown rock sound with every dial turned up several digits past 11.
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Aug 13, 2014With every bungled attempt at pop, metal, or pop-metal, Get Hurt just rewrites its own worst case scenario.
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Aug 5, 2014Get Hurt is a shockingly misguided assemblage of over-processed hair-metal guitars, '80s adult-contemporary keyboard swill, and hilariously overblown skullduggery.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 26
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Mixed: 2 out of 26
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Negative: 1 out of 26
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Dec 8, 2014
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Aug 14, 2014A more introspective, sombre album but with the same great tunes and melodies. Took a few listens to appreciate how good it is. Currently on repeat.
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Sep 1, 2014