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Mar 25, 2021The Bitter Truth is reminiscent of the band’s older material but also entirely fresh. It does not feel like a band going through the motions.
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Mar 30, 2021Altogether, The Bitter Truth carries listeners on a journey both familiar and fresh, recapturing the heavy-yet-melodic hallmarks that made Fallen one of the most successful albums of the 2000s and pushing Evanescence into the future with a graceful maturity and worldly perspective.
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Mar 25, 2021The album manages to balance the extremes and convey the chaos of it all. The sound, which Lee wanted to be bigger and bolder, is both of those things. The anthemic choruses are plentiful and unforgettable, and the instruments explode in a way that hopefully can be played live in the near future, vaccines willing.
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Mar 25, 2021There’s catharsis and darkness, but they are of the most forward-looking variety, fringed at times with something approaching hopeful joy. In a time where Evanescence’s usual emotional touch could easily speak to feelings of isolation, fear, confusion, hopelessness, loss and fragility, The Bitter Truth gets on that frequency and interrupts it.
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Apr 6, 2021All that conflict and drama might be a little too overpowering if not for Lee’s abiding faith in the power of a nice hoo. The album’s best moment is also its most self-assuredly poppy.
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Classic Rock MagazineApr 29, 2021Not a great comeback, but just good enough. [Jun 2021, p.81]
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Mar 25, 2021Her crisis of faith provides a sharp edge to Evanescence’s formulaic grandstanding.
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Mar 25, 2021There’s some pleasure to be had here, but for all of those except those of us pawing the floor with anxious, somewhat embarrassed memories – and as the album cover even seems readily to acknowledge – this is perhaps a pill best left unswallowed.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 144 out of 165
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Mixed: 6 out of 165
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Negative: 15 out of 165
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Mar 26, 2021sem defeitoooos, albúm da carreira sem duvidas, to muito apaixonado, não tem UMA música ruim, simplesmente PERFEITO
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Mar 25, 2021An absolutely stunning album. The band, at its greatest moments. It deserves every attention. Well done guys
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Jun 11, 2021