Criminal | ||||
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Released | February 2, 2018 | |||
Genre | Industrial [1] | |||
Length | 39:39 | |||
Label | Sacred Bones | |||
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The Soft Moon chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 78/100 [2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
The 405 | 8/10 [3] |
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The A.V. Club | B [5] |
Crack Magazine | 7/10 [6] |
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Drowned in Sound | 8/10 [8] |
Exclaim! | 8/10 [9] |
The Line of Best Fit | 8/10 [10] |
Pitchfork | 7.2/10 [11] |
PopMatters | 7/10 [12] |
Criminal is the fourth studio album by American post-punk band the Soft Moon. It was released on February 2, 2018 by Sacred Bones Records.
Criminal was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 10 reviews. [2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 14 reviews. [13]
Sean O'Neal from The A.V. Club said the album "evokes all of those classic, angry goth teen touchstones. And while that poetry-journal melodrama grows a tad exhausting by album’s end, there are plenty of deliciously bitter pleasures here for anyone who similarly loves brooding in that blacked-out, candlelit bedroom of the mind." [12] Francisco Gonçalves Silva from The 405 explained "Despite the album adopting a confessional structure, the characteristic elements of The Soft Moon’s aggression remains. And it all sounds dirtier, gritter and angrier than ever." [3]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Burn" | 3:20 |
2. | "Choke" | 3:09 |
3. | "Give Something" | 4:30 |
4. | "Like a Father" | 4:40 |
5. | "The Pain" | 4:36 |
6. | "It Kills" | 4:17 |
7. | "Ill" | 2:35 |
8. | "Young" | 3:50 |
9. | "Born Into This" | 3:49 |
10. | "Criminal" | 4:53 |
Credits adapted from AllMusic website. [4]