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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 3, 2012There are some parts you'll have to suffer through, but there are at least a handful of tracks that we can save and enjoy into the future.
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Oct 2, 2012After all these years they can still write a catchy tune.
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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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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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UncutSep 28, 2012This 12-song return tones down the pomp, in favour for a return to the band's breathless takes on Ramones/Buzzcocks pop-punk formula. [Nov 2012, p.75]
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Sep 27, 2012The defense that it isn't trying, that it's just for kicks, would I guess be admissible if the songs weren't so entirely devoid of substance.
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Sep 27, 2012It comes off like a neutered reprise of the band's decades-old spirit.
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Sep 27, 2012Armstrong sounds detached, despite a stream of curse words, and the band plays with a machine-like efficiency.
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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, 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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Sep 25, 2012Ironically, it's not their youthful flair but their depth of experience that pulls it off.
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Sep 25, 2012¡Uno! is a grower.
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Sep 25, 2012¡Uno! feels like the work of a band that has painted itself into an aesthetic corner.
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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 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 24, 2012For all of the expansion in the band's aural palette, it's difficult to escape a sense of déjà vu on some tracks, which sound like only slightly altered versions of previous entries in the Green Day catalogue.
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Sep 24, 2012Uno! starts promisingly, but it's soon obvious that the Clash of "Tommy Gun" is still their template.
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Sep 24, 2012The stadium punks' ninth album, though, is largely throwaway.
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Sep 24, 2012It feels like the band is playing it a tad safe here.
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Sep 24, 2012For now, we have to take it on its own accord: an overly-slick record that does the job for its current audience of diehards, whilst teasing the crusty veterans that dabble occasionally.
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Sep 24, 2012However successful the whole endeavour (¡Dos! and ¡Tré!) might end up being, ¡Uno! can only be judged on its own merits, and those merits are somewhat erratic.
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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 21, 2012Some of the dullest music released all year.
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Sep 21, 2012¡Uno! is Green Day's least ambitious record in years and a return to what they do best: short, sharp, scatterbrain pop-punk.
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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 20, 2012The spiky threesome have made a very decent fist of sounding like their twentysomething selves.
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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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Q MagazineSep 19, 2012Solidly enjoyable though Uno! is, they might have been wiser to mix things up fro the start. [Oct 2012, p.92]
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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, 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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Sep 19, 2012They deliver it like late-breaking news, with mid-Sixties-guitar clamor, '77 velocity and no breathing room.
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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