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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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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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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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Sep 26, 2014Gerard Way has wiped the slate clean and started afresh, with invigorating results.
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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.
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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