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Oct 22, 2014Within its contents the album very much feels like the debut record from a solo artist trying to feel things out on his own as a songwriter.
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Sep 29, 2014For as much as Way refers to other acts, this is a thoroughly original work, a vibrant reflection of all his artistic obsessions.
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Sep 26, 2014Hesitant Alien has enough requisite cool and clamor to insure he stays both relevant and remarkably vibrant.
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Sep 30, 2014Hesitant Alien features some of Way’s best material yet.
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Sep 30, 2014The music is more subdued than My Chemical Romance's, but Way's still not as understated as the influencers he's channeling. His storied themes of love and pain pop up throughout Hesitant Alien like embarrassing Facebook statuses. It's a largely smooth transition out of the dark and into the bright world of pop.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 17, 2014This album is absurdly in the red with ear-loading fuzz as Oasis at their most cocaine-blitzed. [Nov 2014, p.96]
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Sep 29, 2014Whether all of these tracks add up to a cohesive statement is debatable, and it’s a shame that the album drops off so noticeably after such a promising start. But the good news is that Way has produced something infinitely more interesting than whatever the next My Chemical Romance rock opera might have been.
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Sep 26, 2014Though Way is at his most engaged in years, there's no major reinvention here. If anything, his first solitary missive registers as much as a tribute to influences as it does a focused reboot.
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Kerrang!Sep 29, 2014Hesitant Alien is a magnificently oddly-shaped album that glides and jerks between styles like a turbo-charged rubber ball. [20 Sep 2014, p.52]
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MojoNov 5, 2014"Hesitant" is the right word for his attempt at creative rebirth. [Nov 2014, p.92]
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Sep 26, 2014Gerard Way has wiped the slate clean and started afresh, with invigorating results.
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Q MagazineOct 3, 2014There was always more going on inside that pretty head than met the eye. On his first release since disbanding My Chemical Romance, you may struggle to hear what that is. [Nov 2014, p.120]
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Oct 15, 2014His emotional delivery drives highlights like ''Millions'' and ''Drugstore Perfume.'' Elsewhere, though, the disc isn’t urgent enough to pack the same punch as Way's best work.
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Sep 26, 2014Way’s audible enthusiasm for this music results in a confident, swaggering set of songs packed with joie de vivre, banks of feedback and walls of guitars and saxophones.
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Sep 29, 2014Yes, it’s a big step away from MCR’s post-hardcore rock anthems, with Way’s Bowie-like charisma and undeterred passion a familiar call to arms.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 58
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Mixed: 2 out of 58
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Negative: 4 out of 58
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