The Tipping Point
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
Ultimately, it’s a cathartic celebration of life co-created by someone who’s survived a traumatic experience. More importantly, it shows how heartbreak, suffering and tragedy can be refashioned into transcendent art.
100
The synth-pop band’s first album in 17 years billows with the widescreen ambitions of their foundational decade.
90
The Tipping Point is cathartic, searingly traumatic, soaring, wisdom-filled and transforms all those things into transcendent art.
4mo
90
Their solo efforts are fine and enjoyable, but when they work together as they have here, albeit with outside writers, musicians and producers, they create a sound and art that is outstanding.
90
Forty years after forming, TFF seek another happy ending.
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1y
89
It may not be the greatest album Tears for Fears ever made, but it is too damn close for any fan to wallow in disappointment.
80
Their first record since 2004, The Tipping Point, is clean, respectfully confident, and actually has a purpose that justifies its subtle grandiosity.
80
Their voices are less mannered, the romantic sonic sweep is more lush, it sounds like they are enjoying the studio for its own sake.
80
It ultimately inspires and uplifts. After the darkest hour, The Tipping Point ultimately offers euphoric melancholy after all.
80
A vastly collaborative experience, the difficult nature of the sonics is matched by the joy unravelling them – our only hope is it doesn’t take the band two decades to conjure a follow up.
80
This set is a classic-sounding Tears for Fears record, one that makes the listener take emotional, spiritual, and mental inventory of their inner world even as the one outside roils with trouble, violence, and madness.
80
The Tipping Point is a joyous reminder of their one-of-a-kind partnership, and it should be celebrated by old and new fans alike.
80
The Tipping Point is an album that takes a few listens to really discover all the hidden gems it contains.
80
The more chances Tears For Fears take, the more they thrive, and they take chances here: seems like a new album was a good idea after all.
80
Chart-topping duo’s first since 2004 offers plenty to shout about.
75
Offering their own spin on modern electro-pop, the masterful '80s duo return from a long hiatus with plenty of gas left in the tank.
75
The legendary pop duo’s first new album in 18 years approaches the challenges of middle life with familiar sensitivity and shared intimacy. It’s a strikingly unguarded and forthright record.
73
Some tracks are perhaps a little too polished, too – taking the radio friendly gleam factor down a notch or two may have allowed for the rawness of the emotions to be more to the fore, more visceral and exposed.
70
While there are few moments that challenge the band’s finest work, let alone justify the extended wait for new music, The Tipping Point reaffirms TFF’s collaborative talents.
70
The Tipping Point manages to straddle the band’s past (the very early days aside) and stride on into present times, and that in itself should be enough to please more than one generation of Tears For Fears fans.
60
The veteran pop duo process difficult times on this beautifully crafted, if not quite catchy, new album.
What ‘The Tipping Point’ lacks that made Tears For Fears’ original work so impactful is some edge in the production. Either as a result of studio equipment evolving so much in the years since, or perhaps because these two have outlived caring about aesthetic (I choose to believe the former), this is far too polished. The album feels like it’s mostly void of personality which should never be the case for any album from two masterminds of ‘80s pop
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Creo que, y en el creer cabe un amplio margen de equivocación, el favorable recibimiento de The Tipping Point se debe en gran medida a que Tears For Fears fue una importante dupla en los 80's y 90's en el panorama musical. Y ahora a más de diez años de su último trabajo es un sentimiento de añoranza el que predomina tanto en el álbum como en la percepción de la audiencia. Y es muy valido, es una forma más de percibir la música. Otra ... read more
You know what? I'm just gonna say it; this really is a 2022 album by English pop band Tears For Fears!
Favorite Tracks: Break The Man, My Demons, Please Be Happy, End of Night
Least Favorite Track: Rivers of Mercy
No Small Thing: 9.0/10
The Tipping Point: 8.5/10
Long, Long, Long Time: 7.8/10
Break The Man: 8.1/10
My Demonds: 7.6/10
Rivers Of Mercy: 7.5/10
Please Be Happy: 7.2/10
Master Plan: 8.2/10
End Of Night: 8.6/10
Stay: 7.4/10
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Track List
| 1 | No Small Thing 4:42 | 75 |
| 2 | The Tipping Point 4:13 | 80 |
| 3 | Long, Long, Long Time 4:31 | 77 |
| 4 | Break The Man 3:55 | 73 |
| 5 | My Demons 3:08 | 67 |
| 6 | Rivers Of Mercy 6:08 | 77 |
| 7 | Please Be Happy 3:05 | 73 |
| 8 | Master Plan 4:37 | 76 |
| 9 | End Of Night 3:23 | 74 |
| 10 | Stay 4:36 | 71 |
Total Length: 42 minutes
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| #33 | / | Good Morning America |
| #36 | / | Albumism |
| #37 | / | musicOMH |
| #38 | / | Under the Radar |
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1y
listened to some of this thinking id hate it but its pretty good actually ( i mean its obviously nowhere near their best but its really impressive for a late career effort)
1y
Must-hear let’s goooooo! (Inb4 Fantano shits on it and drops the critic score below 80)
Added on: October 7, 2021