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- Summary: Though known for always being on the road, Against Me! has finally released its second major label album, which continues to blend elements of its trademark punk and folk rock with fist-pumping anthems celebrating teenage anarchy and encouraging all to fight the good fight.
- Record Label: Sire
- Genre(s): Rock, Indie/Alternative
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| I Was A Teenage Anarchist | |
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| I was a teenage anarchist Looking for a revolution I had the style, I had the ambition I read all the authors, I knew the right slogans There was no... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 15 out of 18
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Mixed: 3 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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This album's brilliance comes from the titanium-larynxed Tom Gabel's juxtaposition of the listener's jaded expectations of punk with too-direct-to-be-dishonest sentiments.
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2007's New Wave was an artistic and commercial breakthrough for Against Me!, the formerly stripped-down punk act, setting frontman Tom Gabel's strident, socially aware lyrics against melodic hooks via producer Butch Vig. That relationship is revisited on White Crosses.
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White Crosses is all shiny and fresh and proudly expedient, without proving a thing except that Against Me! are fully capable of doing it again.
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Kerrang!Nov 17, 2011A triumph. [29 Oct 2011, p.52]
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White Crosses is a big-sounding album with a blue-collar soul, but though the guitars may aim for the rafters alongside lofty, singalong choruses, the songwriting ultimately comes off safer and more commonplace than anything they've done yet.
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White Crosses is a huge, mainstream rock album that draws as much from Bruce Springsteen and U2 as it does from their own folk-punk roots.
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While White Crosses has a few stellar songs, it lets down as a complete record. Anarchy will have to wait a little longer.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jan 15, 2013
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