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.
Loud Like Love has bright spots, but the laborious moments threaten to undo their good work.
Equally far from disappointment or ascendency, it tacks about its ashen existence, perfectly fine and perfectly listenable and perfectly suffering for it.
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.
It’s a disappointing yet completely listenable effort that suffers for being nothing more than a new Placebo record.
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.
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.
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
1 | Loud Like Love 4:51 | 73 |
2 | Scene of the Crime 3:27 | 71 |
3 | Too Many Friends 3:34 | 69 |
4 | Hold on to Me 4:54 | 48 |
5 | Rob the Bank 3:38 | 45 |
6 | A Million Little Pieces 4:41 | 67 |
7 | Exit Wounds 5:48 | 72 |
8 | Purify 3:45 | 53 |
9 | Begin the End 6:00 | 69 |
10 | Bosco 6:42 | 78 |