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Feb 13, 2020Father of All Motherfuckers is a danceable, feel-good pop album with some really stellar songwriting and, after the impotent Revolution Radio and the ludicrous ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy, seeing Green Day branch out a bit and succeed at something different is refreshing. It’s a sign of artists with a great deal of range and imagination who are far from done surprising us.
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Feb 10, 2020Green Day deliver everything with such panache that the songs’ limitations don’t really matter, especially when they manage to make tired old tropes seem fresh, as on the swooning brilliance of Take the Money and Crawl and Meet Me on the Roof.
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Feb 7, 2020The effort feels more like a sidestep than a leap forward.
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Feb 7, 2020The most notable thing about the record is how excited everyone sounds. It crackles with energy, buoyed by the feeling that the trio are finally unshackled by their past. It's punchy, and the hooks generally last long past the record's short runtime.
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Feb 7, 2020These songs feel like the bratty little brothers of the likes of ‘Castaway’ and ‘Blood, Sex And Booze’ from 2000’s ‘Warning’, but with more of a snarl and a need for speed.
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Feb 7, 2020Father of All… is a bountiful act of recovered rock memory, an effortlessly affirming argument that the first mosh pit or car radio contact high you get when you’re 13 years old can be enough to sustain you long into life. It’s a deep, deep thing, and, in a sense, a defiant and subtly political statement, too.
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Feb 7, 2020Green Day are watching the world burn from an air-conditioned dance floor on Father of All.... While the album doesn't deliver their most memorable songs, its wild glam experimentation and attitude-heavy performances show a band still seeking new thrills even decades in.
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Classic Rock MagazineFeb 6, 2020Invigorating results. ... It's refreshing, comforting even, to have Green Day back in their exuberant element, unburdened by message or morality. [Mar 2020, p.86]
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Feb 6, 2020The album aims for instant gratification and achieves it so efficiently that it can’t help but burn fast.
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Feb 6, 2020I mean it as a compliment when I say I didn’t immediately recognise Green Day the first time I heard their new album. There is something positively gleeful about the American multimillion-selling stadium punk trio’s reavowal of the fundamentals. They exhibit the swagger of a hot young band discovering rock’n’roll for the first time, allied to the abilities of old pros who know exactly how to do it right.
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Feb 6, 2020Father of All… is a solid album that shows not only their mastery of sound but also genre and a nod to the greats that came before them.
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Feb 5, 2020Green Day have delivered possibly their most immediate album this century and an album that, despite its short length, grows more rewarding with repeat listens.
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Q MagazineFeb 4, 2020By its very nature, Father Of All... is slight compared to a sprawling magnum opus such as 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, but it's close to impossible to emerge from its rapid-fire near-half-hour without a smile on your face. [Mar 2020, p.112]
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Kerrang!Feb 4, 2020It's a hella mega good time from start to finish. [1 Feb 2020, p.53]
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UncutFeb 4, 2020Fuses the hormonal aggression that put Green Day on the map with punched-up modern-day production courtesy of Butch Walker and a razor-sharp mix by Tchad Blake. [Mar 2020, p.29]
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Positive: 79 out of 217
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Mixed: 38 out of 217
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Negative: 100 out of 217
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Feb 7, 2020It's a really meh album. I do understand that they want to change up their sound, but it's still lacking.
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