Loud Like Love

Placebo - Loud Like Love
Critic Score
Based on 16 reviews
2013 Ratings: #1092 / 1115
User Score
Based on 139 ratings
2013 Rank: #513
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CRITIC REVIEWS

70
AllMusic

The release is among the group's most accessible material, even if their tendency toward goth romance and arch fantasy are still very much intact. 

60
musicOMH

Loud Like Love has bright spots, but the laborious moments threaten to undo their good work. 

60
The Line of Best Fit

Equally far from disappointment or ascendency, it tacks about its ashen existence, perfectly fine and perfectly listenable and perfectly suffering for it.

50
Drowned in Sound

The best hooks and the most memorable poetics are missing, and Loud Like Love offers nothing to rival the highlights of their existing back-catalogue.

40
PopMatters

It’s a disappointing yet completely listenable effort that suffers for being nothing more than a new Placebo record.

MusicaMeretrix
50

I make myself laugh imagining that Brian Molko seemed so desperate to shove "Champs-Élysées" in his lyrics that he resorted to singing about dumping his computer onto it and making himself look like an asshole as a result. He littered the most beautiful avenue in Europe because his computer called him gay. This man must be stopped before he litters all of Europe's public places with gender-insensitive computers.

tha138
45

Weak in its inception,restricted in its expression and used in its substance...

everythingafter
41

I feel like I've listened to the same uninspired album three times in a row from Meds to Battle for the Sun to Loud Like Love.

bon
82

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS 😭😭58?😭 THIS ALBUM MADE ME CRY MULTIPLE TIMES

synthronautic
85

an extremely emotional heartfelt record.

Simon1
63

Revisiting Placebo: Pt. 7

It's a decent album. The first half is mid, while the second is good.

Loud Like Love is one of the most pop things Placebo has ever made. But it turned out good. The best song on the first half.

Scene of the Crime and Too Many Friends are just decent songs.

Hold on to Me is bad. Like, it starts decent but at the end, it becomes too pretentious.

I used to love Rob the Bank, but now some of the lyrics sound kinda cringe.

I like A Million Little Pieces. It's ... read more

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Track List

1Loud Like Love
4:51
73
2Scene of the Crime
3:27
71
3Too Many Friends
3:34
69
4Hold on to Me
4:54
48
5Rob the Bank
3:38
45
6A Million Little Pieces
4:41
67
7Exit Wounds
5:48
72
8Purify
3:45
53
9Begin the End
6:00
69
10Bosco
6:42
78
Total Length: 47 minutes
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Added on: September 7, 2013