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Dec 5, 2012Green Day's third disc in three months lets their tightly wound hooks decompress, delivering stadium-worthy three-chord nods to various ghosts of rock past, from Otis Redding to Baba O'Riley.
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Kerrang!Jan 9, 2013The final album in the set is the best of the bunch, [8 Dec 2012, p.50]
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Dec 6, 2012¡Tré! picks up where its predecessor, ¡Dos!, left off.
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Apr 22, 2014In the end, iTRÉ! is unexpectedly the strongest record overall of the three. Although it has its own issues, these don't drag that much the whole affair down and there aren't any horrible missteps such as "Nightlife".
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Dec 12, 2012Green Day still sounds best when it's confused, angry, and playing with abandon.
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Dec 10, 2012It's hookier and not as ponderous as ¡Uno! but not quite as breakneck as ¡Dos!.
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Dec 11, 2012It's more raw, pointed and hard-hitting than anything they've released in years, yet it's littered with head-scratching filler and awkward sonic diversions.
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Jan 3, 2013It's got some pretty good songs--but they never get better than pretty good.
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Dec 14, 2012The music may be just as strong, tight, and impeccable--this is a band that's been going at it for more than a quarter of a century, after all--but there's a lightness missing here, a lack of passion.
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Dec 10, 2012This is Green Day doing what Green Day have always done.
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Dec 5, 2012¡Tré! feels scattershot and slapped together, making it difficult to enjoy on its own merits.
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Dec 11, 2012¡Tre! succeeds most as an exercise in influence-dropping and self-recycling, with a glimmer of inspiration here and there.
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Jan 2, 2013A failed experiment then, all the more painful for the potential it showed.
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Dec 11, 2012I wish I could close the book on ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! with a more favorable assessment than a resounding, Eh, it was ok.
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Dec 10, 2012Too often, ¡Tré! falls back on a formula--fast, box-ticking choruses fashioned from chords you can count on the fingers of one hand--that Green Day have pretty much stretched to breaking point.
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Dec 10, 2012It's a mixed bag that doesn't reach the lows of a forced, guest rap appearance, while containing some of the best songs the trilogy has to offer.
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Dec 10, 2012On the whole, when not tedious or embarrassing, the remainder of Tre is simply not up to the task of proving why a third album in three months was necessary.
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Feb 1, 2013Tre! is more whimper than bang.
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Dec 21, 2012¡Tré! offers a few ballads, swelling string-laden anthems and even a six-minute medley à la American Idiot--styles that once represented a new aesthetic for the band but now sound forced and exhausted.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 90 out of 147
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Mixed: 33 out of 147
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Negative: 24 out of 147
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Dec 12, 2012
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Dec 11, 2012