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Kerrang!Oct 19, 2012What this amounts to is a sharp and often exhilarating change of gear from the Green Day of the past eight years. [22 Sep 2012, p.50]
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Oct 1, 2012These songs are made for clubs, student unions and theatres, not arenas. And it's all the better for it.
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MojoSep 19, 2012Those fans who jumped on with 1994's breakthrough album Dookie should rejoice: your favourite slacker-punks are, briefly, back. [Oct 2012, p.82]
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Sep 19, 2012¡Uno! does what Green Day have always done best: play loud, fast, catchy-as-fuck punk rock that results in near-endless replay value.
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Sep 19, 2012They deliver it like late-breaking news, with mid-Sixties-guitar clamor, '77 velocity and no breathing room.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 21, 2012Uno is a welcome switch from high concept to high energy. [28 Sep 2012, p.72]
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Sep 25, 2012Ultimately, these guys work best when the stakes are lowered, when the pretensions and grandeur are set aside in favor of snot-nosed, nihilistic punk-pop clatter.
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Sep 25, 2012Until its sequels are released, Green Day's latest should be regarded as a disposable but thoroughly enjoyable return to the band's long-deserted roots. The Cali punks are back, and it's nice to see them.
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Oct 2, 2012After all these years they can still write a catchy tune.
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Sep 26, 2012There aren't any plinking pianos or Hollywood strings, but the music still goes big the way we've grown to expect from Green Day.
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Sep 25, 2012Ironically, it's not their youthful flair but their depth of experience that pulls it off.
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Sep 24, 2012While that inspired recklessness is missed, this brisk, cheerful collection of pop is a relief after the operatic ambitions of 21st Century Breakdown.
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Sep 21, 2012Free from grandly theatrical flourishes that were threatening to become things of creative captivity, ¡Uno!'s graceful manoeuvres confirm Green Day's status as one of the world's finest rock'n'roll bands.
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Sep 19, 2012¡Uno! finally sees the Cali-punk trio letting themselves sound like Green Day, releasing the pressure and defaulting to what they do best.
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Oct 2, 2012Granted, filler abounds, and it doesn't land with quite as much delirious abandon as it once did, but Armstrong's power-pop impulse can still pack a face-splitting punch.
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Sep 25, 2012¡Uno! feels like the work of a band that has painted itself into an aesthetic corner.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 136 out of 204
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Mixed: 38 out of 204
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Negative: 30 out of 204
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