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Sep 16, 2013The release is among the group's most accessible material, even if their tendency toward goth romance and arch fantasy are still very much intact.
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Alternative PressSep 4, 2013The music, more polished and synthetic than ever, is fine.... But too much of this album comes off like self-parody. [Oct 2013, p.92]
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Sep 4, 2013Easy to absorb musically and easy to ignore lyrically, Loud Like Love is 50 minutes of simply okay alt-rock.
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Classic Rock MagazineOct 23, 2013While this album is unlikely to win them many new fans at this stage, there's plenty of the old charm twinkling away to get fans back on board their wonderfully strange little ship. [Oct 2013, p.89]
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Sep 11, 2013To the casual ear, this could be any of their other albums. But with such a consistent sound, it becomes harder for individual songs to stand out.
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Sep 20, 2013Loud Like Love’s loudest moments (“Exit Wounds,” “Purify”) are all puff and no power. But on the tormentedly bemused “Too Many Friends,” we get incisive philosophical reflections on technological alienation and the swelling meaninglessness of modern existence.
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MagnetSep 19, 2013Overall, this still feels very much on the level Placebo was at with 1999 single "Every You Every Me," minus more artfully constructed, impressive instrumental compositions and lyricism. [No. 102, p.59]
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MojoSep 4, 2013Against the odds Placebo are growing old gracefully. [Sep 2013, p.89]
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Sep 16, 2013Loud Like Love has bright spots, but the laborious moments threaten to undo their good work.
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Sep 23, 2013Placebo have been plumbing the same vein for so long, they've slipped into self-parody and come out the other side with their lipstick all smudged.
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Sep 30, 2013Lyrically it’s weak, and the over-polished studio buffing does nothing to emancipate the blueprint that is, essentially, the same as it was 17 years ago.
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Sep 19, 2013It’s a disappointing yet completely listenable effort that suffers for being nothing more than a new Placebo record.
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014[Placebo is now] sounding modern and sneakingly world-beating. [Oct 2013, p.109]
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Sep 6, 2013Equally far from disappointment or ascendency, it tacks about its ashen existence, perfectly fine and perfectly listenable and perfectly suffering for it.
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Under The RadarSep 4, 2013Loud Like Love is sadly a chugging bore. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.93]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 55 out of 68
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Mixed: 6 out of 68
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Negative: 7 out of 68
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