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Bought to Rot
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  • Summary: The debut full-length release for the music project from the Against Me! singer/guitarist features Atom Willard and Marc Hudson.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Punknews.org (Staff)
    Nov 9, 2018
    90
    Bought to Rot is an exploration and an experiment, but a highly successful one that manages to come together as a coherent whole to really deliver something special.
  2. The Line of Best Fit
    Nov 7, 2018
    80
    BTR best functions as a way to experience every mode that Grace has to offer as both songwriter and vocalist. It’s also the closest that Grace has come to letting others in and having a direct dialogue with the outside world.
  3. Exclaim
    Nov 7, 2018
    80
    Teetering between organized and messy, the melodic and chaotic, Bought to Rot is what Grace considers her "Scorpio album." Presenting herself bare, she exposes unfiltered honesty through the kind plain-spokenness that's, nowadays, avoided by contemporaries of her stature.
  4. AllMusic
    Nov 9, 2018
    80
    When combined with the gut-level hooks, this barbed wit results in a record that's simultaneously immediate and enduring: the first listen demands attention, but it's the left turns, in both the lyrics and melodies, that makes Bought To Rot so satisfying.
  5. The Guardian
    Nov 9, 2018
    80
    She is self-effacing, emotionally incisive and capable of inciting teenage fervour in cynical souls. There are few like her.
  6. Paste Magazine
    Nov 9, 2018
    75
    Grace doesn’t graduate from punk on Bought To Rot--she expands and elevates it with explicit revelations, fervent melodies, head-banging chord progressions and unruffled tenacity.
  7. Under The Radar
    Nov 27, 2018
    50
    It is for those who look to music not as a way to diversify their cultural conquests, but rather those who need to hear the validation of their basic humanity from a voice who understands their pains. For those individuals, this album might just be the refreshing break from the privileging of the aesthetic over the material that is desperately needed today. Otherwise, the album traffics too heavily in platitudes and generic alt-rock formulas.

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