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MojoNov 7, 2014For all its ambitious and admirable wilfulness, the sound of Casablancas playing in his sandpit is still an acquired taste. [Nov 2014, p.94]
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Oct 20, 2014Those willing to take the plunge are likely to find enough here worthy of a future return to explore further and ignore, or more likely respect, its self-indulgent qualities.
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Oct 13, 2014While Tyranny is wildly self-indulgent--and often at the expense of quality - you could never say that it's boring.
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Sep 30, 2014Intriguing but muddled, Tyranny puts plenty of musical distance between Casablancas and the Strokes, but too often it lacks the clarity to be anything but challenging in the wrong ways.
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Sep 23, 2014Tyranny plays out like an album-length version of that epic song, stumbling upon moments of success in the way that a drunk dart player hits a bullseye every once in a while.
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Oct 22, 2014While the songs are definitely different and eccentric, there’s a real lack of a notable melodies or hooks, and while the effort is there, Tyranny just doesn’t feel very memorable or significant.
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Sep 25, 2014On Tyranny, that guy has simply worked too hard, and that sense of needless toil bleeds through in every bum lick, brick-walled sound, and garbled burst of noise shoved onto the record.
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Q MagazineOct 3, 2014For the majority of Tyranny, it's almost impossible to understand what's going on or why. [Nov 2014, p.121]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 74 out of 89
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Mixed: 7 out of 89
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Negative: 8 out of 89
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