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MojoJul 18, 2012Toweringly camp singles like the slinky Perfect World and an album to enjoy on shuffle. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012Serviceable camp pop as it is, there's little here to attract anyone who hasn't already bought into Gossip. [Jun 2012, p.102]
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May 14, 2012Most of these tunes are neither dog turd nor diamond. They're decent-ish disco-punk stompers sold by the vocal.
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May 10, 2012A Joyful Noise is a brave stab at something new.
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May 9, 2012You could argue that A Joyful Noise is the album Madonna should be brave enough to make. But it might also be the case that it's the album that Gossip should have been brave enough not to.
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May 9, 2012A Joyful Noise is the sound of Gossip taking their love of dance floor pop to its natural conclusion with their most obvious and accessible album yet.
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Jun 4, 2012[Song "Casualties of War" is] the sole promising moment on an album that ranges from average to disappointing. In the end, Joyful Noise feels like a stopgap.
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May 29, 2012While Gossip prove themselves capable practitioners of disco-fraught anthems like Noise's "Move In The Right Direction" and "Get Lost"--Ditto in particular continues to inject more nuance into her bullhorn vocals with every record--the most compelling tracks on A Joyful Noise are the few that don't entirely conform to the template.
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May 24, 2012Here they seem to have devolved, finally, into just plain pop.
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May 21, 2012Too often the songs here are forgettable, but Ditto continues to sing impressively.
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May 21, 2012An album that wears its disposability on its sleeve.
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Jun 15, 2012It's a boring album, it's a depressing album, but it's also a deeply cynical album.
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May 21, 2012In the end, though, the groans far outweigh the mindless fun.
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May 18, 2012A Joyful Noise is a femme-power event album too shallow to achieve the import its creators intended.
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May 17, 2012The results turn out to be lifeless instead of uplifting and accessible as they'd hoped.
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May 14, 2012The usually redoubtable Beth Ditto sounds less like the spirit of riot grrrl and more like a wannabe material girl.
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May 14, 2012Ditto & co ... appear to have disastrously lost their fire. Only "Love in a Foreign Place" shows the sort of strutting disco beast they are capable of. It's too little. But not, one still hopes, too late.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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