Overall, Thirty Seconds to Mars have some great ideas and some solid moments on Love Lust Faith + Dreams. That said, putting ambition successfully into practice and sometimes overindulging in ‘great ideas’ sometimes undoes those ideas.
Love Lust Faith + Dreams was set up as a new chapter for the band. The end result just feels empty.
When he sings you always want to drub him. He doesn't do any good songs. Of all the actors-turned-wannabe-rockstars, he's the worst.
On a chilly winter's day in California in 2012, Jared Leto, after having held a sermon about his unmatched artistic prowess during which he performed the miracle of snorting thirty metric tonnes of cocaine in a single line, proposed a cum-worthy idea. "What if", the savior of music himself queried to his disciples, "we took 'This is War' and just stripped it of most of the live instrumentation that produced its energetic stadium rock feel, and made the gang vocals sound less like ... read more
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2 | Conquistador 3:12 | 58 |
3 | Up In the Air 4:35 | 65 |
4 | City of Angels 5:02 | 58 |
5 | The Race 3:40 | 43 |
6 | End of All Days 4:46 | 50 |
7 | Pyres of Varanasi 3:12 | 48 |
8 | Bright Lights 4:51 | 49 |
9 | Do or Die 4:07 | 54 |
10 | Convergence 2:00 | 41 |
11 | Northern Lights 4:44 | 59 |
12 | Depuis Le Début 2:33 | 33 |