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Tickets To My Downfall

Machine Gun Kelly

Tickets To My Downfall

Fifth album from the Texas-born pop-punk rapper produced by Blink-182's drummer Travis Barker

ADM rating[?]

6.6

Label
Polydor
UK Release date
25/09/2020
US Release date
25/09/2020
  1. 9.0 |   Vinyl Chapters

    It is evident that Tickets To My Downfall is a cry for help from Machine Gun Kelly. MGK’s raw talent has always been so present and his energy within his songs are flawless
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  2. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    It celebrates everything great about pop-punk without feeling cookie-cutter or third division. It also finds its energy from the knots Kells works through in the lyrics
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    Colson Baker reignites the least cool genre ever (OK, with maybe the exception of nu-metal), channeling the angst and abandon of his childhood heroes
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  4. 7.0 |   All Music

    While it would rank as a slightly above average album for any given pop-punk band, there's an added excitement in how risky this about-face is for a multi-platinum artist who could have easily turned in the same record he made last time
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  5. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    The best collaborator on Tickets to My Downfall is, weirdly, Matthew Musto, more commonly known as Blackbear, a sleazy pioneer of misogynistic emo-rap
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  6. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Blink 182’s Travis Barker helps the Cleveland rapper find a new punk sound
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  7. 6.7 |   Pitchfork

    The motor-mouthed rapper’s latest album reboots him as an heir to the early-’00s pop-punk canon, with Travis Barker producing and playing drums
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  8. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    A tabloid-baiting relationship with Megan Fox and heightened celebrity are influences on an entertaining but cliched album
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  9. 3.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    A hollow corporate cut-out that rests on the shoulders of giants who perfected this style fifteen-or-so years ago and is ultimately a complete farce that’s best forgotten about
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