Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

The Betrayed

Lostprophets

The Betrayed

Fourth studio album from Welsh alt.rock sextet

ADM rating[?]

6.6

Label
Visible Noise
UK Release date
11/01/2010
Listen on Spotify
Related Links
Last.fm Myspace Wikipedia
Share
Share |

  1. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    Out of the ashes of troubled production and discarded albums, a musical phoenix has risen; The Betrayed is Lostprophets' most accomplished and finest effort to date
    Read Review

  2. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The Betrayed doesn’t reveal anything new about Lostprophets... Consolidation has never sounded so good
    Read Review

  3. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Click Music

    A triumph of perseverance in the midst of adversity and a proverbial kick in the teeth to the doubters
    Read Review

  5. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Addictive and heartfelt, showing Lostprophets at the top of their game
    Read Review

  6. 7.0 |   NME

    ...plays to their strengths in that it sounds more like the work of blue-quiffed CGI-animated ninja warriors than real people with wrinkles
    Read Review

  7. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    Their detractors will still call them softies but like a heavy metal training bra, they’ll still be in demand
    Read Review

  8. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  9. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    ...sounds as if it could have been written in 1999. That's not to write it off though: it is polished, but loud and occasionally pleasingly raw
    Read Review

  10. 6.0 |   The Times

    ...there’s a sense of motion, melody and urgency that, in their 13th year together, Lostprophets have done well to preserve
    Read Review

  11. 5.0 |   The Observer

    ...slick melodies and epic choruses struggling to conceal an absence of soul and ideas
    Read Review

  12. 4.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  13. Back to main chart

blog comments powered by Disqus
buy it at amazon download it from itunes

Watch it

Roll over video for more options

Hear it

Preview & download it

Lostprophets: The Betrayed

  • Download full album for just £8.49
  • 1. If It Wasn't For Hate £0.99
  • 2. Dstryr / Dstryr £0.99
  • 3. It's Not The End Of The World £0.99
  • 4. Where We Belong £0.99
  • 5. Next Stop Atro City £0.99
  • 6. For He's A Jolly Good Felon £0.99
  • 7. Nothing £0.99
  • 8. Streets Of Nowhere £0.99
  • 9. Dirty Little Heart £0.99
  • 10. The Darkest Blue £0.99
  • 11. The Light That Shines Twice As Bright... £0.99
  • Service provided by 7Digital

Latest Reviews

Loyle Carner  hopefully!

The sounds are slightly different here than on previous albums and his tentative sojourn into singing is a success because his voice connects as easily as his rapping does Albumism

Lorde  Virgin

Lorde trades in her secrecy and mystique for a tremendously healing, desperately relatable record that cements her mark as her generation’s defining artist Northern Transmissions

Lorde  Virgin

On the uncomfortable paths of the 28-year-old’s fourth album, slam-dunk bangers are substituted with reinvention and restraint surrendered through hushed, reflective, and carnal synth-pop vestiges Paste Magazine

More reviews

All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.

  1. 9.3

    Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly

  2. 9.2

    Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters

  3. 9.1

    Spiritbox Tsunami Sea

  4. 9.1

    Kendrick Lamar Damn.

  5. 9.1

    D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah

  6. 9.0

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen

  7. 9.0

    Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure

  8. 8.9

    Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways

  9. 8.9

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree

  10. 8.9

    Frank Ocean Channel Orange

See full list