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- Record Label: Vagrant
- Release Date: Nov 24, 2008
- Summary: The fifth studio album for the Swedish rock band was produced by Rick Rubin.
- Record Label: Vagrant
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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| I Am the Dynamite | |
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| What is waiting at the end of the dirt road. The morning star or just another crown of thorns. What is waiting at the end of the dirt road. What's... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 7 out of 11
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Mixed: 3 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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Although The Cross Of My Calling ostensibly provides an outlet for the band’s Marxist ideologies, its impeccable musicianship, arrangement and production make any political sloganeering irrelevant.
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There's no denying the passion and skill behind the group's fourth album, its most accessible collection yet.
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With Rick Rubin polishing the group's garage rock approach into a sharper aural attack, T(I)NC dishes out such heady anthems.
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There are unexpected gems hidden here.
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FilterThough this may be considered a good album due to its proper rock anthems and memorable melodies, the style goes awry one too many times for the disc to be considered novel. [Holiday 2008, p.92]
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Generally, they’re smart and musical enough to turn rhetorical gestures into convincing rock & roll. But when they subtitle the whole schmear “A Love Vision!” you wonder who they’re trying to kid.
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The Cross of My Calling just sounds like an unfinished assignment.
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Positive: 0 out of 1
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Mixed: 1 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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BryanPFeb 14, 2009
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