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Sep 16, 2016Stage Four reverberates because it’s a concept album, the tracks linear and part of the greater whole.
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Sep 29, 2016Stage Four is bigger in scope and is a flourishing sound thanks to Clayton Stevens and Nick Steinhardt on the guitars. They craft something subtle, where less is more. Elliot Babin's drums aren't as relentless as before and this too works in their favor because it allows the vocal lmessage to seep in. Deeper and deeper.
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Sep 22, 2016Named both in recognition of this being the band’s fourth studio album and for the passing of lead singer Jeremy Bolm’s mother from cancer in 2014, Stage Four is a towering record. Few albums this year, if any, have felt more capable of telling such vivid, striking stories with such clarity and palpable emotion.
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Sep 20, 2016Stage Four is quite possibly Touché Amoré’s best album yet. They have once again one–upped themselves into crafting a fierce record which would do all their families proud.
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Sep 15, 2016The album is a passionately written and deeply moving meditation on loss, and Touché Amoré have never been better as a band.
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Sep 16, 2016Its vivid imagery, anthemic arrangements, and unsuspecting listenability position it as hardcore’s Carrie & Lowell: an autobiographical tragedy that soars in spite of an overwhelming urge to succumb.
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Oct 13, 2016Touché Amoré’s music has always been intensely autobiographical and that introspection has reached peak levels on its fourth full-length, Stage Four.
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Alternative PressSep 16, 2016The result is a beautifully sad collision of melody-drenched, aggressive art rock that retains plenty of the fast-paced intensity the band's perfected. [Oct 2016, p.90]
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Kerrang!Sep 15, 2016It's a record that feels truly alive, filled with sorrow, guilt, selflessness and love. [17 Sep 2016, p.52]
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Sep 15, 2016Intimate, impressive, and ultimately cathartic, Stage Four is well worth your time.
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Sep 15, 2016All in all, Stage Four is an exercise in catharsis and self examination of what it means to lose someone close to you, but instead of being dragged down into a spiralling bleakness, it's is an album that ultimately feels resolutely life-affirming.
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Sep 23, 2016Stage Four still features the band doing what it does best, and also improving on its sound in many key areas.
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Sep 20, 2016Much of what makes Touché Amoré a success remains intact: the band jamming away behind Bolm, supporting and expanding his “slam poetry.” But, oh what wonderful poetry it has become, as Bolm dives into the depths of his cortex as he comes to terms with the death of his mother in 2014.
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Positive: 31 out of 35
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Mixed: 0 out of 35
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Negative: 4 out of 35
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