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Feb 1, 201340Tre! is more whimper than bang.
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Jan 9, 201380The final album in the set is the best of the bunch, [8 Dec 2012, p.50]
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Jan 3, 201360It's got some pretty good songs--but they never get better than pretty good.
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Jan 2, 201350A failed experiment then, all the more painful for the potential it showed.
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Dec 21, 201240¡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.
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Dec 14, 201260The 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 12, 201270Green Day still sounds best when it's confused, angry, and playing with abandon.
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Dec 11, 201262It'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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Dec 11, 201250I 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 11, 201258¡Tre! succeeds most as an exercise in influence-dropping and self-recycling, with a glimmer of inspiration here and there.
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Dec 10, 201250Too 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, 201250It'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, 201270It's hookier and not as ponderous as ¡Uno! but not quite as breakneck as ¡Dos!.
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Dec 10, 201260This is Green Day doing what Green Day have always done.
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Dec 10, 201250On 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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Dec 6, 201280¡Tré! picks up where its predecessor, ¡Dos!, left off.
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Dec 5, 201260¡Tré! feels scattershot and slapped together, making it difficult to enjoy on its own merits.
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Dec 5, 201283Green 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.