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- Summary: Produced and recorded by the band along with the helping hand of producer Matt Allison, the Chicago punk-rock natives' seventh studio album, This Addiction, is the band's first release on their label Heart & Skull and their first with Epitaph Records.
- Record Label: Heart & Skull/Epitaph
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Punk
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Top Track
| Dine, Dine My Darling | |
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| Don't leave me alone, I'm waiting for this to be The last thing that I see Well, if I tried real good, then I probably could Get a couple more days,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 8 out of 14
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Mixed: 6 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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This Addiction is a chiseled, go-for-broke disc with a modicum of overdubs, melodic flourishes, and even harmonies.
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Q MagazineThe title track sets the tone with its exploration of heroin addiction as a metaphor for relationships, but it's "The American Scream"--a gritty, neo-gothic parable--that best illustrates Alkaline Trio's unique take on three chords and the truth. [Mar 201, p.97]
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Alkaline Trio aren’t naïve punk rockers from the Chicago suburbs anymore, as a result this album fails to recapture that innocence but succeeds in creating another strong body of work that the group can be proud of.
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This Addiction is interesting and ultimately noteworthy because it finds a way to continue on with the band’s winning schematics while tweaking the blueprints in such a way that it's almost hard to notice that you’ve been duped by all the seeming predictability.
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With its return to a more straight-forward approach, ‘This Addiction’ does hark back to the likes of ‘Goddamnit’ and ‘Maybe I’ll Catch Fire’. Unfortunately, while not being a bad album, it is not a patch on those seminal earlier releases…. Simply a solid recycling of their much-loved sound.
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It’s hardly the best of their Asian Man days, but This Addiction is a solid mix of their old and new sounds that is well worth a listen.
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Based on the simple songwriting and the nauseating lyrical content, This Addiction is sad, and to the die-hard Alkaline Trio fans such as myself, it will greatly disappoint.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Mar 31, 2022
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Jan 2, 2014
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