- Record Label: Ministry of Sound
- Release Date: Jun 9, 2017
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Jun 12, 2017This is what the whole record has managed to capture; that truth is indeed a beautiful thing, and it is explored with vulnerability and grace wholeheartedly.
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Aug 4, 2017The bona-fide future-classic ‘Oh Woman Oh Man’, the soft-focused but laser-guided balladry of ‘Hell To The Liars’ and ‘Rooting For You’, and the title track are as good as anything on their debut--and in ‘Non Believer’, they may well have written their finest song yet.
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Jun 12, 2017This is a beautiful album that’s as absorbing as it is emotionally affecting.
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Jun 9, 2017Though a long time coming, it seems that not rushing a follow-up has allowed London Grammar to craft a record that’s hauntingly stark, yet staggeringly beautiful, possessing a rich musicality that even now, is mature beyond the band’s young years.
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Jun 7, 2017There are ballsy moments--they just happen to be coated in the trio’s signature icy cool.
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Jun 6, 2017With Truth is a Beautiful Thing London Grammar have created a world that knows when to be expansive and when to be introspective, building on their DNA and adding more dextrous, yet suitably restrained arrangements.
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Jun 9, 2017Of course, at 14 tracks and over an hour long, Truth Is a Beautiful Thing suffers some of the pitfalls of the long pop album. There is some filler, particularly around the middle. ...However, the trio is better than ever at their signature sound: the lush ballad.
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Jul 19, 2017If there's any downside, it's that their sophomore album doesn't do anything to distinguish itself from its predecessor. But you know what? When you write songs that are just as strong as your past work, evolution is less of a necessity. If it's not broken, don't fix it.
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Jun 15, 2017While it's an overall relaxing experience, Truth Is a Beautiful Thing is never boring; it's a comforting and often heartbreaking listen that really gets under the skin, especially with Reid's emotive delivery.
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Jun 14, 2017The music of London Grammar continues to bewitch, soothe and inspire in equal measure, and when Truth Is A Beautiful Thing is at its best, it fully lives up to the title.
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Jun 6, 2017There are moments of heart-stopping beauty throughout, as well as a newfound optimism that propels the songs to swelling heights.
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Jun 15, 2017London Grammar’s music remains gorgeous, but the band too often limits themselves with their own conservatism.
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Jun 7, 2017It’s pleasant enough, though listeners may experience a twinge or two of deja vu.
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Q MagazineJun 6, 2017The music itself, a combination of gentle piano and tremulous, echoing synth, is mesmerisingly samey, like scenery rushing past your car window on a long road trip. [Aug 2017, p.102]
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Jun 12, 2017It’s best when the pace picks up on the likes of Oh Woman Oh Man , with its rousingly multitracked chorus, or the crisp groove of Non Believer, but mostly it sounds like the same long, portentous chillout sesh.
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Jun 8, 2017Their debut had moments of heft, but Truth Is a Beautiful Thing – which might as well be called Chillout Sessions: Ultimate Melancholy--drowns in its own despair.
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Jun 6, 2017She pirouettes into the upper echelons of her register during Rooting for You, conveying the affection and apprehension contained in the line 'you’re the only thing I’ve ever truly known'. The low scoops on Hell to the Liars are another, as if Reid’s digging in her heels to stand firmly against 'the righteous ones'. But these are rare instances of genuine feeling amongst what otherwise feels like palatable but empty theatrics.
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Positive: 70 out of 80
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Mixed: 5 out of 80
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Negative: 5 out of 80
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