Wolf's Law - The Joy Formidable
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second full-length release from the Welsh alternative rock trio.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 31
  2. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Jan 22, 2013
    91
    The songs on this album are echoing, but not distant; they connect on a personal level, and then pull the listener along in a mighty heave.
  2. 80
    Wolf's Law doesn't expand on the Joy Formidable's sound so much as it cements their sound.
  3. Feb 11, 2013
    80
    In amongst their sleeker, poppier, but still hard-hitting grooves, they're not afraid to tackle big issues, either. [26 Jan 2013, p.55]
  4. Feb 1, 2013
    60
    It’s a confused collection of songs, but there are enough gems here to suggest that they’ll come good soon enough.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. 10
    FINALLY After years of dull indie rock, we have an album that breaks free of all the genre trappings, does it's own thing and just sticks it's soul out there for everyone to see. I love this album.. in a sea of mediocrity it stands out as spectacular from the first note to the last. I hope The Joy Formidable are around for a long time because this album is sublime. Expand
  2. Just wonderful and fascinated piece of art. There are many powerful songs, which give your strength, joy and feeling, that our life is crazy party, where everything can happen. Collapse
  3. The Joy Formidable do only seem to operate within a very small circle of loud distortion, crashing drums and grinding bass guitar strumming, but it's a great circle that has helped them produce a more than solid album. Most songs seem to follow the structure of having loud verses and even louder choruses, and they very rarely deviate from this, but they show in flashes that they can write epic songs to close off albums, acoustic trimmings ('Silent Treatment') to work as the album's keystone and some mean riffs that echo some of Biffy Clyro's best work. Expand
  4. Poorly produced. The drums, strings, and keys all sound digitally done. Worst of all is the way they ruined her voice. She seems to have recorded a bunch of tracks for each vocal in different keys, but they are all mixed at the same level so you can't really hear how she actually sounds. A big step down from The Big Roar. This is what happens when bands self produce. Expand