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Jun 3, 2014With Glass Boys the band takes another evolutionary leap without leaving anyone pining for the past.
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Jun 2, 2014The band beautifully marries its dense and intricate compositions with Abraham's sledgehammer vocals to create something that feels like the next evolution of the genre.
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Jun 3, 2014Even if the method of delivery is not the most effective, it’s a positive thing for both artist and listener to be pushing further, trying harder, and exploring uncomfortable, new terrain. Ignoring that would be a mistake.
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MojoJul 24, 2014Glass Boys' legacy will likely be the Fucked Up record fans praise for its songs, rather than the risk-taking. [Jul 2014, p.95]
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Jun 17, 2014Perhaps that great crossover will now never happen, but they’ve made a refreshing, bold record here, that, a few trips aside, leaps the barriers of genre with ease and satisfies throughout.
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Q MagazineJun 13, 2014Their fourth album continues their stimulus for head and viscera. [Jul 2014, p.107]
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Jun 6, 2014Glass Boys is a more than worthy accomplishment from a band that has been too busy playing by their own rules and constantly rewriting what it means to be punk to care about others expectations.
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Alternative PressJun 4, 2014Everything from the swirly, '90s guitars to the harmony-laced background vocals just scream a band gazing far beyond their genre trappings. [Jul 2014, p.102]
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Jun 3, 2014This isn't a radical leap forward, as with some of the other releases. This is quite clearly a self-definition.
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Jun 2, 2014As usual there’s a lot of depth here and over time, more and more will be revealed. Glass Boys might not be as expansive as its predecessor, but it is no less impressive.
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Jun 2, 2014[The] unflinching self-reflection makes Glass Boys a more immediate album for Fucked Up, especially coming on the heels of such a performative piece as David was.
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May 30, 2014Fans of Fucked Up’s more experimental efforts may be left slightly underwhelmed by Glass Boys, but for what is at heart a hardcore band, it is still a hugely ambitious and exciting record, that hits top gear almost immediately and barely shifts down until the final piano melody of its eponymous closer.
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May 30, 2014Sure, Abraham's vocal style guarantees an intense outcome, but Glass Boys drives forward, constantly questioning.
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May 30, 2014An impassioned record that feels like their most raw, personal work to date.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014A fine punk album, but no more than that. [Summer 2014, p.92]
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Jun 16, 2014The record’s major achievement is in stretching the genre again, this time by contraction: This is meditative hardcore.
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Jun 12, 2014Glass Boys is the best album Fucked Up have released so far, by virtue of it being the “laziest” collection of their career.
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Jun 12, 2014Refining rather than challenging their boundaries, Fucked Up reconnect with the sounds that first set their pulses racing. Glass Boys is a gloriously savage return.
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Jun 5, 2014Glass Boys is easier to navigate, and doesn't engender the same awe [as "David Comes to Life"]. But its brevity allows Fucked Up to loosen a little--to indulge in sounds and tones they forwent when their albums sprawled. Less space, and more stuff: the band keeps getting denser.
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UncutJun 4, 2014While the unrelenting energy can be somewhat exhausting, it's hard not to get swept up. [Jul 2014, p.73]
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Jun 3, 2014It cannot be denied that this album can’t help but fall short of the previous two records’ effect, given the massive quantity of pioneering moves captured in those albums. Nonetheless, whether or not Fucked Up can see it, they’re still doing the music world some good.
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Jun 3, 2014Glass Boys is their most straight-ahead punk rock record aside from the Epics In Minutes and Couple Tracks compilations.
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Jun 2, 2014Fucked Up can remain relevant without the need for continual, exhausting reinvention.
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Jun 2, 2014Now, you can only hear faint echoes of their past greatness underneath the lard-laden production; it’s something that will please the fanbase.
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Jun 5, 2014[The Songs] need topline melodies, and Abraham cannot supply them. It makes Glass Boys a tiring experience, as you search for tunes that logic tells you must be there, but which the recording fails to deliver, putting too great a burden on lead guitar lines and backing vocals to add melodic shade.
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Jun 3, 2014Their fourth LP feels like their most serious yet--but that doesn't mean they've matured.
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May 30, 2014It’s softer, but it’s nice to see a band unafraid of mellowing.
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Jun 5, 2014