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Kerrang!May 6, 2015This is not a time-weathered, diluted imitation of Faith No More. This, ladies and gents, is still "The Real Thing." [9 May 2015, p.52]
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Alternative PressMay 6, 2015This is the most imaginative and urgent FNM have sounded in years--not to mention the most relevant. [Jun 2015, p.96]
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May 19, 2015It’s the rare, rare reunion album that’s shoulder to shoulder with what came before it, standing on the band’s solid catalog instead of trying and failing to start the climb anew.
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May 19, 2015Faith No More appears to have not only written a collection of songs that stand up to the lofty heights they set for themselves from past releases, in some ways they have exceeded them.
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The WireJun 5, 2015Sol Invictus is a looser, more relaxed record than its predecessors, occasionally dropping into a lounge ballad mode that suits Patton's vocals. [Jun 2015, p.52]
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MagnetJun 4, 2015This album finds Patton in his glory. [No. 120, p.55]
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May 26, 2015Add curveballs such as From The Dead, a plangent alt. country anthem, and it all adds up to the logical follow-up to 1997’s Album Of The Year. It’s like they’ve never been away.
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MojoMay 20, 2015Sol Invictus scratches a creative itch created by the band's Second Coming Tour, and reasserts that they will not be second-guessed or pigeonholed. [Jun 2015, p.94]
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May 18, 2015Sol Invictus is their best and most compelling work since Angel Dust, and the rare reunion album that truly adds to the strength of the group's legacy rather than diluting it.
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May 12, 2015Sol Invictus isn't perfect, and it's not their best work, but Faith No More creaking with a little rust and blinking cobwebs is still a glorious thing.
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May 11, 2015The absence of original guitarist Jim Martin is soon overshadowed by just how focused the record is.
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Classic Rock MagazineMay 7, 2015A group at ease with both their instruments and each other, showing no signs of rust or sclerosis despite their long lay-off. [Jun 2015, p.88]
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Q MagazineMay 6, 2015This isn't just a new Faith No More record. It's one of their very best. [Jun 2015, p.113]
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UncutMay 6, 2015It's a dynamically compelling set that taps Black Sabbath, Chic, Killing Joke, Elmer Bernstein and Paolo Conte, Mike Patton's extraordinary (six octaves) voice its focus. [Jun 2015, p.76]
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May 11, 2015Faith No More had nothing to lose by staying on history’s sidelines, for once, but Sol Invictus proves that they belong back in the game.
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May 19, 2015This is a solid comeback album that succeeds on its own terms.
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May 19, 2015With the exception of one tune seemingly about Patton's breakfast ("Sunny Side Up"), it's as much a triumphant victory lap as it's a comeback record.
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May 18, 2015Sol Invictus is not a bad return, but it’s not the greatest thing Faith No More has ever done.
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May 12, 2015Like their last record, Album of the Year, Sol Invictus is more concerned with playfully nudging at the boundaries of hard rock conventions rather than attempting a dizzy genre-spanning explosion to rival 1995’s King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime.
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May 11, 2015Ultimately though, there's more here that will shock than will appease.
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May 22, 2015It doesn’t offer any major stylistic advance over Album of the Year, admittedly, but its 10 songs are constructed with an incomparable craft and creativity that few bands in rock and metal can reproduce.
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May 19, 2015Set aside the negligible opening and closing tracks, and Sol Invictus has just eight tracks spanning 34 minutes, an underwhelming running time considering how long Faith No More have been away. Such brevity could be overlooked if Sol Invictus was accompanied by a significant shift in the band’s sound, but many of these songs feel like retreads.
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May 14, 2015Sol Invictus is not quite Faith No More at their eccentric peak, but Matador, Sunny Side Up and From the Dead see them get close. A welcome return from the band that refuse to be bland.
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May 18, 2015Absent the lightning-in-a-bottle voltage of their heyday, Faith No More's Sol Invictus is shockingly no more than adequate.
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May 21, 2015We’re supposed to admire the fact that 30 years after their debut album, they haven’t moved an inch closer to definability.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 64
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Mixed: 10 out of 64
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Negative: 2 out of 64
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