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9.4
61903
9.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Catchy and important as fuck. Listen to it
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9.3
61948
9.3 |
Paste Magazine
Transgender Dysphoria Blues is a perfect storm of great songwriting paired with some timely, frank admissions from Grace
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9.0
61909
9.0 |
All Music
The trick of the album is how the music - simple, hookier than most Against Me! music - sells the story, underscoring the universal elements of this very specific story
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8.5
62007
8.5 |
The Quietus
Transgender Dysphoria Blues is a lot of different things – a landmark record, a singer-songwriter story, a punk opera – adopted into a sound so powerful that you forget all that while listening to it
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8.0
62547
8.0 |
Crack
This record ain’t flawless, but that’s not what Against Me! is
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8.0
61946
8.0 |
PopMatters
We may want to make Grace a symbol of something, take her struggle with identity and expression and render it a simplified abstraction, but this rollicking, excellent rock record wants none of that
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8.0
61902
8.0 |
The Guardian
The lyrics are intense – addiction, loss, gender politics, mortality – but LJG has a knack for transmuting it all into gutsy, powerchord catharsis
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8.0
61908
8.0 |
DIY
We can’t choose how we’re made but we can choose what we make, and what Against Me! have crafted here is nothing short of exceptional
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8.0
61930
8.0 |
A.V. Club
There are a lot of questions asked throughout Transgender Dysphoria Blues, and it only adds to the accessibility of Against Me!’s regained pop-punk power
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8.0
61904
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Here, as in all of Against Me!’s best work, punk is rendered not as a detached political ethos but simply as the will to survive when the world around you tells you to cave in
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8.0
61906
8.0 |
Spin
The self-released approach, scrapped-together band, and 29-minute running time should only shock those who expected this to be a huge statement by Grace on anyone's terms but her own
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7.5
62005
7.5 |
Pitchfork
Punk has always been about disruption of order, and this new revolution that Laura Jane Grace leads doesn't surrender her identity, it reclaims it
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7.0
61905
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
These songs have just as much heart as they do guts, and the LP stands as Against Me!’s first forward looking album since Searching For A Former Clarity
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7.0
61932
7.0 |
NME
Against Me!’s sixth album, is not simply music to carve an apple bong to
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7.0
61933
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
It's an inspiring LP – it takes balls to come out this way, in this genre. Godspeed, sister
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6.0
61907
6.0 |
The Observer
This refreshing concept album now explores the complexities of double lives, love and loyalty, while remaining as accessible and pogo-friendly as Green Day
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