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Classic Rock MagazineJun 25, 2013A glorious return to form for one of the world's most peculiarly successful bands. [Jun 2013, p.92]
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Alternative PressApr 30, 2013Tears On Tape doesn't reinvent the wheel, but within HIM's impressive canon, it's among their best. [May 2013, p.90]
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Apr 30, 2013Its insidious charms may well draw in a larger mainstream audience.
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Apr 30, 2013Suffice it to say, Tears on Tape is a sentimentally sweet, sonically stunning, and beautifully packaged album.
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Kerrang!Jun 12, 2013Tears On Tape isn't bad, then--it's just not as seductive as HIM can be. [25 May 2013, p.53]
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Q MagazineMay 13, 2013Soppiness has become overbearing on recent records, This eighth LP, though, rediscovers their heaviness. [Jun 2013, p.99]
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May 10, 2013While they have the gift for a great chorus that’ll stay in your head even after a single listen, their verses continue have a disappointing tendency to act as indistinct filler between the peak moments, steadily pacing along with their chugga-chugga riffs until the song sees fit to lift itself up for the refrain.
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Apr 30, 2013Tears on Tape proves that H.I.M. moves forward and back but remains mostly in one place.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 24
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Mixed: 1 out of 24
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Negative: 2 out of 24
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