Criminal (album)

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Criminal
The Soft Moon – Criminal.png
Studio album by
The Soft Moon
ReleasedFebruary 2, 2018 (2018-02-02)
GenreIndustrial[1]
Length39:39
LabelSacred Bones
Producer
  • Luis Vasquez
  • Maurizio Baggio
The Soft Moon chronology
Deeper
(2015) 		Criminal
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic78/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
The 4058/10[4]
AllMusic4/5 stars[5]
The A.V. ClubB[6]
Crack Magazine7/10[7]
DIY4/5 stars[8]
Drowned in Sound8/10[9]
Exclaim!8/10[10]
The Line of Best Fit8/10[11]
Pitchfork7.2/10[12]
PopMatters7/10[13]

Criminal is the fourth studio album by American post-punk band the Soft Moon. It was released on February 2, 2018 by Sacred Bones Records.

Critical reception[]

Criminal was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 10 reviews.[3] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 14 reviews.[2]

Sean O'Neal from The A.V. Club said the album "evokes all of those classic, angry goth teen touchstones. And while that poetry-journal melodrama grows a tad exhausting by album’s end, there are plenty of deliciously bitter pleasures here for anyone who similarly loves brooding in that blacked-out, candlelit bedroom of the mind."[13] Francisco Gonçalves Silva from The 405 explained "Despite the album adopting a confessional structure, the characteristic elements of The Soft Moon’s aggression remains. And it all sounds dirtier, gritter and angrier than ever."[4]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Burn"3:20
2."Choke"3:09
3."Give Something"4:30
4."Like a Father"4:40
5."The Pain"4:36
6."It Kills"4:17
7."Ill"2:35
8."Young"3:50
9."Born Into This"3:49
10."Criminal"4:53

Personnel[]

Credits adapted from AllMusic website.[5]

  • Luis Vasquez – composition, production, engineering, mastering, mixing
  • Maurizio Baggio – composition, arrangement, production, engineering, mastering, mixing
  • Marion Costentin – photography

References[]

  1. ^ Freedman, Max (February 2, 2018). "The Soft Moon - Criminal". DIY. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Gonçalves Silva, Francisco (February 6, 2018). "Criminal is a journey of powerful catharsis for The Soft Moon". The 405. Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Phares, Heather. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  6. ^ O'Neal, Sean (February 2, 2018). "Rhye, AWOLNATION, The Soft Moon, and other albums to know about this week". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  7. ^ Peirson-Hagger, Ellen. "Crack Magazine Review". Crack Magazine. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  8. ^ Freedman, Max. "DIY Magazine Review". DIY. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  9. ^ Turner-Heffer, Adam (February 6, 2018). "Drowned in Sound Review". Drownedinsound.com. Archived from the original on May 26, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  10. ^ Yuyitung, Matt (January 30, 2018). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  11. ^ Westley, Nathan (February 7, 2018). "The Line of Best Fit Review". Thelineofbestfit.com. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  12. ^ Geffen, Sasha (February 7, 2018). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b Whitelock, Ed (March 9, 2018). "PopMatters Review". Popmatters.com. Retrieved May 26, 2018.


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