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  • Summary: John Rossiter of Young Jesus had quit music after 2022's Shepherd Head to study permaculture contacted him Shahzad Ismaily and persuaded him to come to New York to garden and eventually created songs that would be part of this album.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
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  1. 90
    This is a damn heavy record, but with it, there's faith and optimism of equal measure.
  2. Jun 11, 2024
    85
    These songs are honest at their core, and often quite heavy, dealing with serious topics. The Fool is an impressive and engaging work but not an easy listen.
  3. Jun 11, 2024
    80
    By the time of the album’s last lines are delivered, I never feel like I’m left unscathed. The Fool is a record filled with a sense of intensity, an almost unnerving feeling that its creator had a lot to say that simply had to get out. Whether it’s any good is for you to decide, but love it or hate it, I think you’ll feel something.
  4. Jun 11, 2024
    78
    An album that offers its emotional reckoning as a messy and necessary new beginning for Young Jesus.