- Record Label: Shanabelle Records
- Release Date: Apr 15, 2014
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Kerrang!Apr 30, 2014It sounds like a band making music for the sheer love of it, but Taylor and his hard-rocking amigos also bring some top-notch songwriting. [12 Apr 2014, p.53]
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Apr 30, 2014Dave Grohl and Pat Smear both make cameos on the record, but high profile guests aren’t the album’s high point. That accolade goes to the gentle soft rock triumph of ‘Raspberries’, the shred-happy ‘Pieces of the Puzzle’ and the piledriving, ’70s-era Aerosmith ballad ‘Too Far Gone To See’.
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May 15, 2014Birds of Satan is a memorable and often exhilarating listen--but with so much going on in the space of half an hour, you can almost hear Hawkins' life flash before your ears.
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Apr 30, 2014[The Birds of Satan] deliver a batch of songs combining the muscular intellectualism of Queens of the Stone Age with the melodic passion of Foo Fighters.
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MojoMay 15, 2014Taylor Hawkins indulges his '70s hard rock fantasy. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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Apr 30, 2014The Birds of Satan is a fun record--it doesn’t aim to top the charts, be name-checked by politicians, or indeed supersede anything that the Foos have ever done.
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Apr 30, 2014The lyrics on The Birds of Satan are fairly generic and read like first drafts--simple phrases about bad love, and good love, and the throes in between--but the words are never distractingly bad.