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Nov 7, 201280It's not quite Destroyer good, but then again, it's not quite Animalize bad either. [13 Oct 2012, p.53]
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Nov 7, 201280It's not quite Destroyer good, but then again, it's not quite Animalize bad either. [13 Oct 2012, p.53]
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Oct 16, 201275KISS' new album, Monster, is a fantastic dog: Protective, loyal, fun to be around but ferocious when it needs to be.
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Oct 16, 201267That Simmons and Stanley put this much passion and knuckle-dragging fun into Monster makes the disc's sporadic warts just part of the appeal.
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Oct 19, 201260Like ZZ Top and Rush before them, Kiss seem to have finally rediscovered (after their stodgy 2010 comeback album, Sonic Boom) what made them so great in the first place.
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Oct 19, 201260Kiss' 20th LP draws from their bottomlessly shallow cesspool of comfortably dumb cowbell-glam wham-bam – with stewardess sex, married groupies and "The Devil Is Me," where Gene Simmons lowtalks like the smoothest used-car salesman in hell.
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Oct 16, 201260Kiss's 20th studio album is a steady if unremarkable outing.
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Oct 16, 201260With Monster, Kiss hit the mark best when rewriting the sound they developed as youngsters and when they keep it simple, predictable, and fun.
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Oct 16, 201250KISS may have set out to sound like their old selves on Monster, but they strayed from the pop sensibility that made them great.
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Oct 25, 201240Although the album barely brings its head above the water-line marked "passable", it's still too slick, too unified and too perfectly structured to convince you that apart from the vocals of Stanley and Simmons, the rest of the album is nothing more than a hodge-podge of contributions from various pony-tailed musos from somewhere sunny.