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8.0
90725
8.0 |
NME
As a simple collection of songs, it’s as strong as anything they’ve come up with since 2004’s ‘American Idiot’
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8.0
90727
8.0 |
Q
If Armstrong genuinely has something to say, a great song will follow. Print edition only
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8.0
90742
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Isn't just hot nostalgia. It reflects decades of accrued emotional and musical wisdom
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8.0
90782
8.0 |
The Observer
Their most coherent album since 2004’s American Idiot
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8.0
91262
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Like the flaming ghettoblaster on the iconic front cover, Green Day are well and truly on fire
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7.5
90784
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Every embrace of Beach Boy harmonies and hook-driven sing-alongs is belied by a bleak worldview—one that knows, despite all assurances, it’s never going to be just all right
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7.5
90724
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
The trio manages to make Revolution Radio both personal and timely for a country going through the same sense of dislocation they themselves have all too recently experienced
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7.0
90769
7.0 |
Uncut
Shares more with the zestier (and earlier) likes of Nimrod. Print edition only
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7.0
90786
7.0 |
All Music
Green Day have nothing more in mind than righting their ship, and that's precisely what they do
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7.0
90801
7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
This record is for those who have some patience with them, not the ones quick to point only missteps then dismiss this
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6.8
90905
6.8 |
Paste Magazine
It sounds pretty goddamn radiant when it’s playing and leaves little impression when it isn’t
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6.2
90803
6.2 |
Gig Soup
Fans will at least be relieved to hear that they’ve still got it in them to make music that has something to say
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6.0
90793
6.0 |
PopMatters
Green Day doing run of the mill Green Day songs isn’t always enough to hold even this longtime fan’s interest
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6.0
90799
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Those who’d like Green Day to break new ground will be disappointed, but those quite happy with them as they are will hear there’s still fuel in the tank
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6.0
90924
6.0 |
musicOMH
There is much to be admired in the simplicity of Green Day’s return
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6.0
90894
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It comes down to this: when Green Day are doing Green Day, they’re still doing it very well indeed
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6.0
90774
6.0 |
Evening Standard
They’ve remembered what made them form a band in the first place
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6.0
90757
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Sounds like just another Green Day album
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6.0
90750
6.0 |
DIY
If punk’s 50th anniversary has shown us anything, it’s that many old rockers grow old, go soft and give in. On that count, if not all, Green Day are faring pretty well
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6.0
90753
6.0 |
The Guardian
There’s still a tendency for things to get a little sixth-form common room, particularly in the empty sloganeering of the title track, but it’s good to see that there’s life in the old punks yet
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6.0
90728
6.0 |
Mojo
Sounds like all Green Day records. Print edition only
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6.0
90741
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
It manages to survey almost the entire bag of tricks the group has pulled from over the past 25 years
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5.1
90792
5.1 |
Pitchfork
Has little effect on their legacy and lapses into pandering, embarrassing lyrical misfires
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5.0
90726
5.0 |
The Music
On the whole though, it's pretty paint-by-numbers. Anyone hoping for a late-career classic is bound to be disappointed
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5.0
90744
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Punk legends bungle their comeback with an album that's confused and average
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4.5
91040
4.5 |
Spectrum Culture
More exhausting than anything else
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4.0
90839
4.0 |
FasterLouder
This is, disappointingly, an album that goes nowhere fast. It had all the potential to kick things back into gear for the next phase of Green Day, and yet instead gave us more of the same
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4.0
90755
4.0 |
The Independent
We may well live in “Troubled Times”, but how does this focus on rage and firearms help? Protest is surely a matter of tone, as well as subject
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