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- Summary: The third album for the New York City-based rock band was produced by John Hill.
- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 11
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Mixed: 5 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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The Bravery’s adrenaline-rush, retro-new-wave/punk rock is back with a flourish. The album is a sonic high, but a mixed bag of lyrical ups and downs.
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Singer Sam Endicott's far more empathetic now that there's a reason behind all that rage.
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Even on its mellower moments, the Bravery sound more excited about making music on this album than they have since their debut, making Stir the Blood a fine return to form.
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Alternative PressWith its techno beats, yowling vocals and laughably cliched lyrics, "I Am Your Skin" fumbles at being a love song, while "She's So Bendable" (the band's vision of Lou Reed fronting the Jesus And Mary Chain) is beyond generic. [Jan 2010, p. 92]
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Fine as hacks, they're somewhat less fine as humans.
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Peppered with aimless, pointless prog-rock, Stir The Blood wants to be fun and affecting, and the band’s failures in the latter regard destroy its ability to manage the former.
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Someone clinically extracts whatever trace of messy humanity made it through the first time the Bravery worked the nu-wave shtick, on their debut; Stir the Blood is a parodoxically bloodless listen.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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May 30, 2012
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Mar 31, 2014
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