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Mar 29, 2018Julian has been leading us here since First Impressions of Earth, he has finally made his no-fi, bonkers masterpiece.
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Apr 2, 2018Virtue is as fun as it is challenging and is both catchy and complex.
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Mar 30, 2018There’s so much to take in, it’s almost hard to know if it’s even any good. Between these sensory overloads, however, we get the funky bop of ‘All Wordz Are Made Up’ and the acoustic lullaby of ‘Think Before You Drink’.
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Mar 29, 2018The Voidz and Julian might not be the most predictable band to pin down, but there are at least some things that we’ve come to expect from them: whatever they do will be interesting, unusual and thought-provoking. On Virtue, they’ve hit the jackpot with a bonus ball--fun.
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Apr 3, 2018Virtue delivers a bracing set of experiments and amounts to the most interesting record of Casablancas’ career.
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UncutApr 19, 2018This 15-track album is daft, sprawling, naive and full of contradictions--but rarely less than entertaining. [Jun 2018, p.37]
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Mar 29, 2018Virtue is the sound of honest confusion--messy, complicated and intriguing.
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Mar 29, 2018Casablancas may not have many answers to his big questions other than expressing a desire to escape it all, but the combination of musical dynamism and lyrical desperation makes Virtue a cathartic experience, if not an especially comforting one.
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Apr 5, 2018This is a record where inspired ideas are constantly battling for oxygen with dubious ones.
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Mar 29, 2018This is Casablancas unwinding and having fun and there's a lot to enjoy here. He's never sounded better (or as versatile) as a vocalist and a lot of this album ("All Wordz Are Made Up," "Lazy Boy") is genuinely great. He may be trying too hard, but at least he's trying to do something different.
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Mar 30, 2018It's a breezier listen than its predecessor, but the Voidz's willingness to try anything--whether it works or not--still might be too much for all but their most die-hard fans.
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Mar 30, 2018There’s enough about Virtue to keep it interesting. There’s not enough to make it genuinely good.
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Mar 30, 2018For every adequate Strokes throwback or Radiohead soundalike, Virtue antagonizes you with two formless freak-outs cobbled together from influences as wide-ranging as ’90s R&B, Arabic chants, “Monster Mash,” and a shocking amount of nü-metal.
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Apr 2, 2018Pink Ocean locks into an appealing groove; Think Before You Drink is tuneful enough, if an abomination lyrically. But even the biggest Strokes devotee will find precious little worth hearing here.
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Positive: 87 out of 99
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Mixed: 3 out of 99
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Negative: 9 out of 99
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Mar 30, 2018this album is truly amazing! very diverse through the different sounds and 'genres' included so theres definitely a song for everybody's music tastes