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Feb 24, 2022Across the next nine tracks they deliver pounding pop thrills and arena-sized catharsis, in a style that refines their distinctive sound instead of pimping it up, Noughties style.
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Feb 16, 2022It’s an album blazing with a refulgent light that illuminates the darkness. Ultimately, it’s a cathartic celebration of life co-created by someone who’s survived a traumatic experience. More importantly, it shows how heartbreak, suffering and tragedy can be refashioned into transcendent art.
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Classic Rock MagazineFeb 16, 2022The Tipping Point album is tip-top art-pop. [Mar 2022, p.80]
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Feb 25, 2022This set is a classic-sounding Tears for Fears record, one that makes the listener take emotional, spiritual, and mental inventory of their inner world even as the one outside roils with trouble, violence, and madness. Welcome back gents, we've missed you.
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Feb 25, 2022A project driven by a focussed, finessed sense of purpose, ‘The Tipping Point’ is an excellent song cycle, one that touches on their innermost feelings.
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Feb 21, 2022The Tipping Point is a joyous reminder of their one-of-a-kind partnership, and it should be celebrated by old and new fans alike.
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MojoFeb 16, 2022The more chances Tears For Fears take, the more they thrive, and they take chances here: seems like a new album was a good idea after all. [Apr 2022, p.88]
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UncutFeb 16, 2022Fans of Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal will find more than enough reminders of their glory days. [Mar 2022, p.36]
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Feb 16, 2022The Tipping Point is clean, respectfully confident, and actually has a purpose that justifies its subtle grandiosity. [Dec 2021 - Feb 2022, p.154]
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Mar 2, 2022An album that feels like the most fully realized record Tears for Fears have ever made, a culmination of the musical and emotional themes they’ve held dear since their inception.
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Feb 28, 2022Not everything lands, and not everything that lands sticks. Even so, there aren't many 17-year hiatuses that end by presenting a group with plenty of gas left in the tank. "When I'm 40 years older/When I'm wrinkled and wise," sings Orzabal — and The Tipping Point makes a compelling argument that it will be worth the wait.
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Mar 2, 2022Anthemic, emotional, powerful – The Tipping Point is a very good record.
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Feb 23, 2022While there are few moments that challenge the band’s finest work, let alone justify the extended wait for new music, The Tipping Point reaffirms TFF’s collaborative talents. They remain idiosyncratic and distinctive in a pop music landscape now enhanced by having this veteran duo back in action again.
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Feb 22, 2022The Tipping Point manages to straddle the band’s past (the very early days aside) and stride on into present times, and that in itself should be enough to please more than one generation of Tears For Fears fans.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 41 out of 45
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Mixed: 2 out of 45
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Negative: 2 out of 45
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Feb 26, 2022Sounds from the future. And lyrics to get us there. Joyous yet truthful. Just when we needed it most. Listen. Love.