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- Record Label: Frenchkiss Records
- Release Date: Aug 16, 2019
- Summary: The first full-length studio release for the Brooklyn-based rock band in five years was produced by Josh Kaufman.
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- Record Label: Frenchkiss Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 18 out of 24
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Mixed: 6 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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Aug 16, 2019Overall, Thrashing Thru The Passion is musically looser than previous offerings—fewer ballads, the big rock numbers less lush and more compact—but it also makes it accessible to new listeners, who can then work their way back through albums like Heaven is Whenever or Separation Sunday.
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Aug 16, 2019As ever, The Hold Steady achieve their best work when their playing is loose. When the songs are filtered through the bottom of a shot glass. When they sound like the best bar band in the best bar you didn’t know about until the moment that you found yourself in it at 3am in the morning. On the basis of ‘Thrashing Thru The Passion’, that band are back.
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Aug 21, 2019In many ways, Thrashing Thru The Passion is so alive and elated that, if not for Hold Steady’s well-documented track record, it could be mistaken for the work of a band just hitting its peak.
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Aug 13, 2019It may not be there with their best work, and it might be seen by some as a bit of a stopgap, but there are still times on Thrashing Thru The Passion that The Hold Steady can effortlessly remind us that they remain the ‘best bar band in the world’.
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Aug 22, 2019If something’s missing, it’s in production that can’t hide ageing spread; over separate sessions, with separate moods. None of it parlays a singular vision. It’s not meant to. So although the songs often hit the spot (it’s a fuck ton more enjoyable than Teeth Dreams) it’s not a follow-up to Stay Positive.
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Aug 23, 2019Thrashing Through the Passion is easily the band’s softest album to date. Where most Hold Steady albums fill the room with sound, there’s a lot of quiet and negative space on this album. While the band’s other albums wrap you up in an awkward hug of emotions and drag you through to a catharsis, this album is passive.
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Q MagazineAug 6, 2019Their first LP in five years falls well short of greatness, reheating past ideas to the point of cliche. [Sep 2019, p.111]
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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