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Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Sep 19, 2024
    80
    An illustrious tour de force, this is experimental music that balances what’s classic, classy and cool.
  2. Classic Rock Magazine
    Sep 19, 2024
    70
    The album tapers off towards the end, but this still a likeable - albeit slight - confection. [Oct 2024, p.77]
  3. Record Collector
    Oct 21, 2024
    60
    The fun again sometimes tips over into irritating self-indulgence. [Nov 2024, p.101]
  4. Sep 23, 2024
    60
    It’s a fun listen the first time, and a reasonable one at the second listen, but how it does after that is anyone’s guess. Enjoy, but proceed with caution.
  5. Mojo
    Sep 19, 2024
    60
    All the ducking and feinting is entertaining enough, but it begins to feel more like a box of disguises than a coherent album. [Nov 2024, p.91]
  6. Uncut
    Sep 19, 2024
    60
    It’s all interestingly varied stuff, although the chopping and changing of styles makes it hard to get a handle on who The Voidz really want to be. [Oct 2024, p.33]
  7. Sep 19, 2024
    60
    In isolation, there’s a lot to enjoy among these tracks, but together, ‘Like All Before You’ requires a lot of listens and maybe a couple of aspirin to translate.
  8. Sep 25, 2024
    55
    Across the album, his voice is helplessly buried beneath vocal processing and mixed conspicuously low, as if to purposely obscure his lyrics. These effects aren’t new to the Voidz, but on Like All Before You, they dominate, obscuring any humanity in Casablancas’ vocals.
  9. Sep 20, 2024
    50
    As much as skipping around can be interesting, it’s difficult to listen to the album as a whole. When you hear a tuneful melody, like the vocal line to “Prophecy,” you want it to last, knowing that you might not get anything that agreeable on the next track.
  10. Sep 24, 2024
    40
    The truly interesting thing about this is that, for such a spacey album, it’s among the shallowest things I’ve ever heard.

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