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Kerrang!Sep 15, 2016While it's true that their [Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman] reunion on Braver Than We Are could never change the world like Bat Out Of Hell and Bat Out Of Hell II, it is a bewilderingly brilliant album. [17 Sep 2016, p.53]
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Sep 8, 2016A mad, florid knockout. Strength through absurdity.
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Q MagazineSep 8, 2016Braver Than We Are is the best thing either has done in decades, addressing as it does both Meat Loaf's less powerful voice and [Jim] Steinman's enormous back catalogue. [Oct 2016, p.109]
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Sep 23, 2016Braver Than We Are may have its flaws--it's too staid and self-conscious, for one--but Steinman never found a better interpreter for his songs than Meat Loaf, and Meat Loaf never sounds more like himself than he does when singing Steinman, and that's why the album works.
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Sep 14, 2016The backstories of the songs give the album an archeological spin. But it’s warmed by just enough updates to deliver Meat’s usual lumpy charm.
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Sep 20, 2016Braver Than We Are isn't Bat Out of Hell (but what else is?) and it isn't even Bat Out of Hell II, but it's a hell of a lot better than the Steinman-unapproved Bat Out of Hell III. These are the types of songs Meat Loaf is meant to be singing, written by the only man able to fully harness his unique talents for the greater good.
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Oct 7, 2016Braver Than We Are knows its audience and plays to it perfectly.
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MojoSep 8, 2016A ton of fun, just like the old days. [Oct 2016, p.92]
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Sep 8, 2016Steinman’s sonic fingerprints are all over the album--the furiously arpeggiating piano riffs (one “borrowed” from Randy Newman), the brusque guitars, the Wagnerian pomp--though it is Loaf’s stagey delivery, with that juddering vibrato, which dominates songs.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 12
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Mixed: 2 out of 12
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Negative: 4 out of 12
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