Signed and Sealed in Blood
- Dropkick Murphys
- Band Name: Dropkick Murphys
- Record Label: Dropkick Murphys
- Release Date: Jan 8, 2013
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Jan 8, 201383Dropkick Murphys have long made it their mission to tap into the raw emotion and rowdy spirit of the blue-collar streets of their hometown. Signed And Sealed In Blood gives that sound some teeth to match.
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Feb 5, 201380Signed And Sealed In Blood finds Boston's finest as raucous, rowdy and riotous as ever, without sounding hoary or hackneyed. [5 Jan 2013, p.55]
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Jan 22, 201380It's the Bostonians' simplicity that's most endearing though, and this is a terrific, hangover-inducing return to form.
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Jan 7, 201380While these songs are closer the band's beer-in-the-air beginnings, greater sophistication and songcraft are evident from the crisp melodies and infectious choruses to earworm anthems with direct, bumper-sticker sentiments. [Feb 2013, p.88]
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Jan 7, 201380The Boston-accented mash-up of Irish folk and punk is still infectious.
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Jan 7, 201380The rest of the album follows suit with an energy that mixes in just the right amount of mirth, mayhem, and maudlin, making Signed and Sealed in Blood an album that's sure to please Murphys fans both old and new.
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Jan 8, 201375[Signed and Sealed in Blood] demonstrates that for this long-running Boston band, loving and fighting aren't opposites but rather complementary manifestations of the only thing that matters: passion.
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Feb 11, 201370Their latest, Signed and Sealed in Blood, will likely not change many opinions as it is still their same hallmark of rowdy, drink in the air, boot stomping sing-alongs.
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Feb 1, 201370When the stories are this well told, it doesn’t matter that Dropkick Murphys keep re-writing them.
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Jan 18, 201370All told, Signed and Sealed In Blood is an album every bit as hardboiled as its title would suggest.
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Jan 8, 201370Signed and Sealed In Blood is a record that should thrill the diehards even as the band evolves and escapes enslavement to the sound of their past success.
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Jan 8, 201370This one may be their most devil-may-care, mixing hardcore blitz, Pogues instrumentation and Thin Lizzy swing.
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Jan 7, 201370Predictably but not to its detriment, Signed and Sealed in Blood delivers a mix of rousing rock songs and enough jigs and whistles to get a singsong going at one of their famous St Patrick's Day shows.
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Jan 8, 201360Here they sound confident on the solid ground they've built over their previous albums and avoid feeling too comfortable, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.
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Jan 8, 201360Signed and Sealed in Blood is a pleasant addition to the Dropkick Murphys' discography, but the reliance on their trustworthy, time-tested conservatism is somewhat unfulfilling here.
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Jan 7, 201340Perhaps rabble-rousing reels, big, dumb, bruising guitars and flag-waving, roared choruses of bromidic triumphalism just make more sense after several pints of Guinness.