America
by Thirty Seconds to Mars
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4.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 74 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 74
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 74
  3. Negative: 34 out of 74
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  1. alex2542
    Apr 25, 2018
    5
    Seems par for the course for 30 Seconds to Mars so I don't know why people are freaking out. Every album has 4-5 great/good/decent songs and the rest is more or less filler.

    Dangerous Night, Rescue Me, Walk on Water, Hail to the Victor, and Love is Madness are solid tracks in 30STM's lexicon but the rest is decidedly meh. While these are songs I have saved to my Spotify as I enjoyed    Seems par for the course for 30 Seconds to Mars so I don't know why people are freaking out. Every album has 4-5 great/good/decent songs and the rest is more or less filler.

    Dangerous Night, Rescue Me, Walk on Water, Hail to the Victor, and Love is Madness are solid tracks in 30STM's lexicon but the rest is decidedly meh. While these are songs I have saved to my Spotify as I enjoyed them I have to say even these are decidedly lacking in heart and passion. Nothing here hits on the heart found in songs like Kings and Queens, Vox Populi, City of Angels, etc.

    It does feel like the band didn't really know what it wanted to do with this album. There's a lot of experimentation with not a lot of ambition or passion in these tracks. So while I feel it's not out of habit for 30STM to put out a decent amount of filler on each album, the highlight tracks on this album don't quite reach the highs of the others and for that, this is probably the most disappointing album to date.    … Expand
  2. hornysoul
    Oct 6, 2018
    4
    Eu sei que todos os artistas podem (e devem) inovar e experimentar coisas novas, mas... Este álbum, que representa uma mudança drástica no estilo do rock alternativo, simplesmente não foi desenvolvido o suficiente. Falta a energia dos trabalhos anteriores... Se isto é a América, eu não quero conhecê-la.

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47

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Kerrang!
    Apr 13, 2018
    40
    America is an odd album, one that requires patience to unlock. [7 Apr 2018, p.54]
  2. Q Magazine
    Apr 13, 2018
    40
    Like Leto's performance in the risible Suicide Squad, the result is unsubtle, self-important and not half as good as it thinks it is. [Jun 2018, p.106]
  3. Spin
    Apr 13, 2018
    50
    America presents the most contemporary, Top 40-friendly version of Thirty Seconds to Mars to date. Bombastic drums and guitars have largely been replaced with fairly tame looped and programmed beats and ominous synths, basically reimagining Thirty Seconds to Mars as the glossy grungetronica of Imagine Dragons. Leto still screams like a banshee, but for once the sounds backing him don’t match his fury.
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