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Universal acclaim- based on 148 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 138 out of 148
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Mixed: 6 out of 148
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Negative: 4 out of 148
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Feb 13, 2023Amazing debut album. The grooves are very tight and the bass sounds massive on nearly every single track. -1 because at (even though very few) occasions the album doesnt manage to convince with originality as some parts sound so much like muse it could literally be a muse track. but overall an album that is 100% worth your time
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Jan 18, 2022
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Jul 5, 2021Origin of Symmetry is the only other album to hook me on a group so completely. I still love Muse, but this made me love Royal Blood.
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Jun 5, 2021Great debut album, perfect tracklist, heavy riffs, stunning drums, beautiful songs. Almost perfect.
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Mar 7, 2018Royal Blood are the best modern hard rock band out there, the entire album is perfection, one of the best rock albums of the 2010's
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Aug 26, 2017
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Jun 19, 2017Album of the decade in my humble opinion! it takes me all the way back to when I first heard Nirvana's Nevermind. there's not one bad song on this entire album.
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Apr 20, 2016
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Mar 2, 2016Fresh, wild garage rock. Yes, it's simple and yes, it wakens a sense of nostalgia, but what's wrong with that? I look forward to their second one. It'll be tough for the guys to meet high expectations.
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Oct 9, 2015TRACK RATINGS
Out of the Black: A+
Come On Over: A-
Figure it Out: A
You Can Be So Cruel: B
Blood Hands: A
Little Monster: A-
Loose Change: A+
Careless: B-
Ten Tonne Skeleton: A
Better Strangers: A
Pretty Damn good rock and roll if you ask me. Excited to see what this band does next -
Jul 28, 2015
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May 22, 2015Using a bass guitar and drums, two-piece rock band Royal Blood have created a deceptively simplistic debut album, filled with menace and grit. I can't wait to hear their next album. This is a great first step.
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Jan 25, 2015
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Dec 30, 2014
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Nov 24, 2014few complaints about this band, solid drummer, solid guitarist = entertaining music
one thing is that their songs are relatively short and there are only 10 of them, about 40 mins of music which is a little short of the average -
Nov 24, 2014
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Nov 18, 2014A quality release from a duo with a straightforward and fun sonic direction. With this very strong debut album, they're definitely going to be artists to watch over the coming years.
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Oct 22, 2014
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Sep 30, 2014
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Sep 19, 2014
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Sep 16, 2014
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Aug 30, 2014A hard, sexy collection. The perfect length for excessive replays, this duo take hard bluesy rawk to new levels of intensity. Thrills and spills of the purest kind.
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Aug 29, 2014
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Aug 26, 2014
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Aug 25, 2014I'd say that this will be the best rock album to come out all year. If you are pining for old school Queens of the Stone Age and wonder if there is somebody out there, who writes riffs like Jack White used to, then this album will satisfy your soul. Admittedly, there is no abundance of new songs on the album - but songs like the stellar "You Can Be So Cruel" make up for that deficiency.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014It never lags. [Sep 2014, p.95]
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Sep 23, 2014There’s heft and muscle to these songs (or, yes, “song”) and the album is a good taster for what these guys must sound like live.
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Kerrang!Sep 16, 2014At it's best, it's a thing of beauty. But if the duo's choruses set the gold standard, it's the riffs that are worth their weight in platinum. [23 Aug 2014, p.54]