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82

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. May 15, 2014
    90
    Easy Pain reminds you how horrible the world can be, as well as the catharsis you can achieve if you'd only just immerse yourself in the maelstrom. [Jun 2014, p.111]
  2. May 15, 2014
    90
    While Young Widows might not be as loud as they used to be, it's possible that the band's sound is as heavy, or heavier, than it has ever been, making Easy Pain the band's moodiest and most engaging work to date.
  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Dec 18, 2014
    80
    Their pain is very much our gain. [Summer 2014, p.91]
  4. Aug 28, 2014
    80
    With Easy Pain, the trio go full fang on this fourth LP, harkening back to the most extreme aspects of Louisville loudness.
  5. Jun 23, 2014
    80
    It’s clearly the best Young Widows record.
  6. Kerrang!
    Jun 12, 2014
    80
    The doom and the dirge are relentless but never get boring. [10 May 2014, p.54]
  7. May 28, 2014
    80
    Easy Pain is absolutely colossal.
  8. May 19, 2014
    80
    Easy Pain effectively seizes the tooth-gritting intensity of 2008's Old Wounds and delivers it through the unsettling ambience of 2011's In and Out of Youth and Lightness.
  9. May 15, 2014
    79
    At last, Young Widows sound less like a string of hyphenates and histories and more like their own demented, delightful selves.
  10. May 28, 2014
    50
    It’s an album focused on a very limited range of moods, and inhabits that tone very well, but ultimately does little to justify sticking around.
  11. 50
    Easy Pain proves hard to like; and with little more than aimless aggression to cling onto for eight songs, you realise it’s all muscle.

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