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Kerrang!Nov 9, 2018An album that's by turns gut-wrenching, hauntingly desolate and emotionally devastating. [3 Nov 2018, p.57]
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Nov 9, 2018Even aside from the tragedy that frames its arrival, though, it stands up as Architects’ very best album. ... Architects have emerged more powerful than ever--building on Tom’s legacy, rather than riding on its coattails. It’s a wonder to behold.
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Q MagazineNov 20, 2018It's as an articulation of grief that this record speaks most powerfully. [Jan 2019, p.106]
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Nov 9, 2018It’s powerfully honest and refreshingly unfiltered, beautifully crafted and distinctive. Most importantly of all it carries the legacy of Tom Searle, and of the remaining Architects members, forward.
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Nov 9, 2018Holy Hell succeeds in pushing Architects’ sound further than ever before. The grooves dig deeper, while the instrumentation is techier.
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Nov 9, 2018The songs’ difficult birth has given them a bracing, anthemic, heartfelt and occasionally even eerily dreamlike quality. Architects aren’t a band for anyone with sensitive hearing, but it’s hard not to be moved by this loud, cathartic howl.
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Nov 9, 2018Holy Hell is both a teardown and a rebuild, and while it isn't always an easy listen, there is some hard-won catharsis to be found in its attempt to distill the messiness of grief into four-minute blasts of sonic demolition.
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Nov 12, 2018Architects have never shied away from clarion calls to action, but this is the band at their most inspiring and effectual, filling in the empty space left behind after a monumental loss. It is an epitaph that nonetheless suggests a bright future ahead.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 125 out of 139
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Mixed: 2 out of 139
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Negative: 12 out of 139
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Nov 10, 2018
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Nov 9, 2018
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Jun 7, 2023the best album as ever listen, soundly perfect and the atmosphere is impeccable, just 10 of 10!