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Kerrang!Oct 6, 2016The 12 songs that comprise the svelte but satiating Revolution Radio are among the finest to which Green Day Have put their name. [1 Oct 2016, p.50]
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Oct 7, 2016On their 12th studio LP they’re dialing down the excess, and the result is a focused set that rocks as fearlessly as their Gilman Street glory days.
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Oct 10, 2016It all makes for their most coherent album since 2004’s American Idiot.
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Oct 6, 2016Revolution Radio isn't just hot nostalgia. It reflects decades of accrued emotional and musical wisdom.
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Oct 5, 2016Tumult and desperation ignite the music on Revolution Radio. It’s the group’s first batch of new songs since “Uno! Dos! Tré!,” the three-disc surfeit of more straightforward tunes released in 2012. Those songs were built around snappy catchphrases and brisk, punky riffs. Green Day’s new ones aren’t so easily summed up, but they can roar through their contradictions.
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Oct 5, 2016As 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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Oct 3, 2016Radio also is the most intensely personal Green Day album in years; as much a celebration of life on the upside of 40 as it is a reminder of the choices, conflicts and contradictions that mark a life well-lived.
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Q MagazineSep 27, 2016Revolution Radio is Green Day back at their best. [Nov 2016, p.104]
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Oct 7, 2016Revolution Radio, the band’s solid but sometimes unfocused new album, can’t stop looking to the past, to the present, anywhere but the future.
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Oct 4, 2016By scaling back from the overambitious sentiments of albums since 21st Century Breakdown and returning to the simple yet effective power chord structure of earlier Green Day, 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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MagnetNov 16, 2016Perhaps both the best and worst you can say about Revolution Radio is that it sounds exactly like Green Day. [No. 137, p.55]
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Oct 25, 2016The engrossing full-album reprise Forever Now gives an insight into frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s booze and pills-induced 2012 meltdown, but otherwise Revolution Radio is more melodic air-punching about guns, gas and the American nightmare. File under: Ain’t Broke.
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Oct 7, 2016Though there are several issues that inevitably drag it down, this is a good record that finally proves the band is willing to move upward.
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Oct 7, 2016Green Day have nothing more in mind than righting their ship, and that's precisely what they do.
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UncutSep 27, 2016Revolution Radio, happily, shares more with the zestier (and earlier) likes of Nimrod. [Nov 2016, p.28]
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Oct 7, 2016Revolution Radio is a loud, energized power-pop album in moody punk clothing. It sounds pretty goddamn radiant when it’s playing and leaves little impression when it isn’t.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 191 out of 239
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Mixed: 24 out of 239
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Negative: 24 out of 239
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