Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
The life and death of the party are twin elements in which the voyeur is drawn to, across all aspects of art, these two chains of interpretation can always be seen hogging the limelight, jostling for attention as the crowds gather to witness exuberance dance with melancholy and the animated conversation thrive between the energetic soul and the downward spiral of the unravelling passion.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
For Icarus, the fall from grace was too much to survive, the hubris shown in the face of the gods a damning streak of complacency, self righteousness that smacks the face of those that display it. Icarus had no return, falling from the height that no human could withstand the impact from. Icarus had no way back but for Green Day, the almost smug delivery that preceded the trilogy of releases in 2012 over a four week period; thankfully has been washed clean, there is a taste for redemption, salvation and it is o ne that they plainly had to extradite themselves from before it became too late.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *
The trilogy is complete, Green Day have finally released the third and final album and all in all, it was two albums too many, roughly 25 songs that could have quite happily been written, composed and destroyed by any another band with half the talent that these three men have normally in abundance.
Tre! follows an unfortunate pattern that has arisen by the American band since they decided to publish three consecutive albums within a short space of time. It has also the inappropriate feel of a group deciding to go all out and make as much out of publicity and hype in a short space of time, by doing that, the quality they attained after a great career has now been dissipated and spoiled.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
How is it possible that one of the great American pseudo punk-rock bands of the last twenty years can deliver two wildly contrasting albums out to the masses in the matter of weeks?
If Uno! was the attempt to take back control of Green Day and take it away from the fan base that had held them in such high regard over two decades, then Dos!, its companion and much better sounding brother in a three course setting allows the fans to wrestle the idealism back and by everything that is considered musically holy, it can only be hoped that it stays there, or goes one better again for Tre! when it released soon.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 25th 2012.
Away from the last two Rock Opera specific albums that Green Day produced, the American band always managed to produce very good albums without straying too far from they stood for. Dookie was very cool and its follow up of Insomniac a step up to the big league.
This is the first of three albums due out in the next few months and worries that the group that bought such excellent songs as Wake Me Up When September Ends, the phenomenal Jesus of Suberbia and 21 Guns, have taken on a project too far look founded and it is enough to make a stone heart weep and their detractors making even louder noises of derision.