Resistance Is Futile
by Manic Street Preachers
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Apr 13, 2018
User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
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  1. Doof
    Jun 5, 2018
    0
    Good grief, if you found an album like 'Everything Must Go' a tad too MOR after reaching it via either 'The Holy Bible' or 'Generation Terrorists' then boy oh boy what would you make coming straight to this. Bland, formulaic, tired, over familiar, soppy, weak...you get the idea. Not one great tune on the thing, as sad as that fact is to report.

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#42 Most Shared Album of 2018

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Sputnikmusic
    Apr 16, 2018
    60
    With Resistance is Futile, they’ve finally caught up with their own reality and decided to produce the one album they never made; a serviceable rock album.
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  2. The Observer (UK)
    Apr 16, 2018
    60
    A remarkable band, still wrestling with the most difficult issues, still searching for beauty in the void.
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  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Apr 13, 2018
    70
    The album concludes with Nicky Wire’s grainy lead vocal on The Left Behind, a charmingly offbeat detour into 1980s indie-rock. More of these eccentric tonal variations would have been welcome on an album that emerges as a solid exercise in arena-sized anthemics, majestic in parts but not a career peak.
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