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This Addiction
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 7 votes
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Album Info
Label: Heart & Skull/Epitaph
Release Date: 23 February 2010
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Punk, Rock, Alternative
Summary
Produced and recorded by the band along with the helping hand of producer Matt Allison, the Chicago punk-rock natives' seventh studio album, This Addiction, is the band's first release on their label Heart & Skull and their first with Epitaph Records.
Also By This Artist: Agony & Irony Crimson Good Mourning
Also On The Web: Last.fm Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
This Addiction is a chiseled, go-for-broke disc with a modicum of overdubs, melodic flourishes, and even harmonies.
Read Full Review >Rock Sound
Alkaline Trio aren’t naïve punk rockers from the Chicago suburbs anymore, as a result this album fails to recapture that innocence but succeeds in creating another strong body of work that the group can be proud of.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
The title track sets the tone with its exploration of heroin addiction as a metaphor for relationships, but it's "The American Scream"--a gritty, neo-gothic parable--that best illustrates Alkaline Trio's unique take on three chords and the truth. [Mar 201, p.97]
Absolute Punk (Staff reviews)
This Addiction promises exactly what the title describes, as most older fans will eat this up.
Read Full Review >Billboard.com
Fans will be pleased to find Alkaline Trio remembering what it's like to be itself.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
While This Addiction might not be perfect, it's a more than respectable entry into the band's already sizable canon, proving that though they may be in that rarified group of punk-rock lifers, Alkaline Trio aren't done evolving yet. [Mar 2010, p.89]
Spin
Hooky, blood-soaked bad-love allegories such as "Draculina" and "Dine, Dine My Darling" (check the punny Misfits nod) satisfy like heartburn-inducing comfort food.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
This Addiction is interesting and ultimately noteworthy because it finds a way to continue on with the band’s winning schematics while tweaking the blueprints in such a way that it's almost hard to notice that you’ve been duped by all the seeming predictability.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Their 2008 major-label bid, Agony & Irony, got bogged down in power-ballad overreach, so with its seventh disc, the group is back to its bleak-Blink-182 roots.
Read Full Review >Sputnikmusic
With its return to a more straight-forward approach, ‘This Addiction’ does hark back to the likes of ‘Goddamnit’ and ‘Maybe I’ll Catch Fire’. Unfortunately, while not being a bad album, it is not a patch on those seminal earlier releases…. Simply a solid recycling of their much-loved sound.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
It’s hardly the best of their Asian Man days, but This Addiction is a solid mix of their old and new sounds that is well worth a listen.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times
The album is a pointedly minimal production, though -- most tracks are simple guitar-bass-drum affairs with a few tasteful harmonies that put the surprisingly durable hooks up front.
Read Full Review >Delusions of Adequacy
Based on the simple songwriting and the nauseating lyrical content, This Addiction is sad, and to the die-hard Alkaline Trio fans such as myself, it will greatly disappoint.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
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