- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Aug 27, 2013
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Sep 23, 2013Last year’s stellar Battle Born, felt considerably more vibrant than Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action ever does.
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Sep 12, 2013Even ignoring the tectonic shifts in music over the past decade, this is by no means a novel or inventive album.
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Aug 29, 2013RTRWRA neatly combines those familiar chantable choruses, punchy guitars, pleasant harmonies and simple, clever lyricism--all in all, a great vehicle for that smooth, too cool croon of singer Alex Kapranos.
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Aug 26, 2013A solid if uneven combination of tight, compact punkish rompers and meandering light rock offerings.
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Aug 23, 2013Largely, Right Thoughts is business as usual--a steady, reliable and often invigorating business, but one that constantly, frustratingly hints that it’s capable of more.
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Aug 23, 2013In a year already host to some brilliant albums, it seems tired and dated.
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Aug 22, 2013These lyrics are all...wordy.
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Aug 21, 2013While there are individual moments that are up there with the band’s best, Right Thoughts falls short of the return to form the opening tracks suggest.
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Alternative PressAug 12, 2013Their fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is just as resolute as the title. [Sep 2013, p.88]
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Aug 26, 2013While Right Words achieves a baseline level of quality or at least competency with the exception of “Goodbye Friends and Lovers” and "Love Illumination", they lack the conviction to take most of their lesser ideas to the realm of being unpleasant rather than kinda boring.
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Sep 11, 2013The experimental mindset is evident in moments of Right Thoughts, but only a select few, and like Tonight, it’s most prominent on the last few tracks.
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Oct 4, 2013Not a song sticks. It's sheer style that carries this disc, albeit one that sounds great.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 95 out of 110
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Mixed: 11 out of 110
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Negative: 4 out of 110
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