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10.0
87034
10.0 |
A.V. Club
Through the record’s unrelenting buzz of power chords and fuzzy vocals, slow-burn anthems and primal screams, Toledo seems to be saying, buckle in; I’m taking you somewhere exciting. Trust him
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9.3
87183
9.3 |
Paste Magazine
With Teens of Denial, Toledo has practically guaranteed himself a viable career for years to come
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9.1
87774
9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
This is an album that belongs in a 2016 time capsule, and one that any indie bard hopeful should be required to hear
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9.0
86976
9.0 |
No Ripcord
Even if he borrows from many sources, he’s made the resolute choice of emphasizing some fuzz-powered chaos on a grand scale
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8.8
87025
8.8 |
Earbuddy
Teens of Denial has the potential to be one of the best releases so far this year and bodes well for Will Toledo’s future as an influential artist
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8.5
87132
8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Toledo makes the mundane seem remarkable
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8.5
87012
8.5 |
Pitchfork
Teens of Denial is guitar-driven music filled with booksmart lyrics concerned largely with depression, which naturally means that Toledo has been championed in some circles as an “indie rock savior,” whatever that means
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8.5
86974
8.5 |
Under The Radar
Toledo speaks for and to the disaffected ones shuffling along between adolescence and adulthood
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8.3
86973
8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
Trying to find a simple message on Teens of Denial means embracing a narrator always slipping away from you, inverting your expectations, and speaking in paradoxes rather than parables
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8.0
87399
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
It’s bold, it’s more adventurous than most bands manage in an entire career, when it’s good it’s brilliant but there are patches that are pretty crap
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8.0
87193
8.0 |
State
Teens of Denial is at once literate, direct, noisy and intimate – if slightly overlong, with a reduction in quality control in the latter half of the record
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8.0
87228
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Like past work, Denial conjures Nineties indie aesthetics – Guided By Voices' British Invasion logorrhea, Liz Phair's emo sucker-punching, Pavement's accidental-on-purpose hooks
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8.0
87239
8.0 |
NME
The work of a precocious talent. Most tracks last over five minutes and the longest comes in at 12. It gives the impression that Toledo is doing what he wants and making the music he wants to hear. You can’t help but love him for it
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8.0
81659
8.0 |
Mojo
A cut above his underground contemporaries. Print edition only
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8.0
86971
8.0 |
Exclaim
Teens of Style may have been an introduction to Toledo's sound, Teens of Denial is an excellent introduction to the project's wider vision
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8.0
86972
8.0 |
The Music
One could spend an age pouring through alter egos, metaphors and the often weird subject matter
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8.0
87015
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Teens of Denial vaults through references to stand alone, rapturous and sincere
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8.0
87022
8.0 |
The 405
This is not just a record for the youth - but one for the ages
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8.0
87162
8.0 |
Beardfood
Dynamic and accomplished, but a bit messy
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8.0
87182
8.0 |
Uncut
Fizzes with energy and smarts, and sees him letting his imagination off the leash to irresistible effect. Print edition only
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8.0
87030
8.0 |
DIY
There’s so much going on here that it can be borderline overwhelming. It’s a record that’s enigmatic, a little deceptive in places, and thoroughly gripping throughout
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8.0
87032
8.0 |
All Music
A piece of rough-hewn brilliance
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7.5
86975
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Captures inherent self-loathing and turns it into something to be proud of
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7.0
87124
7.0 |
Spin
The riffs scream out so jagged and unfiltered that you can feel the steel cutting into Toledo’s fingers, while his now-assured bleat rings clean over the mix, like he’s singing to you in the first row
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7.0
87135
7.0 |
Gig Soup
A work of raw depth and beauty
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6.0
87328
6.0 |
FasterLouder
By and large the music here is undermined by a sense of redundancy
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6.0
87227
6.0 |
PopMatters
What few hooks exist on Teens of Denial are quickly forgotten
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