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Apr 13, 2018America succeeds in representing its namesake: it's confused, inspirational, and, like Thirty Seconds To Mars circa 2018, at a serious crossroads where the future is uncertain but oddly hopeful.
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Apr 13, 2018America presents the most contemporary, Top 40-friendly version of Thirty Seconds to Mars to date. Bombastic drums and guitars have largely been replaced with fairly tame looped and programmed beats and ominous synths, basically reimagining Thirty Seconds to Mars as the glossy grungetronica of Imagine Dragons. Leto still screams like a banshee, but for once the sounds backing him don’t match his fury.
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Kerrang!Apr 13, 2018America is an odd album, one that requires patience to unlock. [7 Apr 2018, p.54]
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Q MagazineApr 13, 2018Like Leto's performance in the risible Suicide Squad, the result is unsubtle, self-important and not half as good as it thinks it is. [Jun 2018, p.106]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 74
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Mixed: 15 out of 74
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Negative: 34 out of 74
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Apr 18, 2018
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Apr 15, 2018Someone may not like its genre, but the album remains coherent with its concept and this makes it a great record.
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May 9, 2018Reviews proved to be divisive just as the band conceived the album, I guess they succeeded with their concept.