Attention Attention
| Shinedown
Attention Attention
Attention Attention is the sixth studio album by American rock band Shinedown. "At the beginning of the record, you can feel this intensity and these bold statements that are being made, but as the record progresses, you hear the individual and the record start to shift, and they start to get their confidence back, and they start to understand what's going on, because they're having to face emotions that they've never really faced before. "-Wikipedia
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Louder
A loose concept album that charts the lows, highs and subsequent recovery of its protagonist, sonically it’s punchier, angrier even, than previous records.
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Sputnik Music
Overall, “ATTENTION ATTENTION” is a pretty good album. It’s one of the best albums of the year so far, with a few minor issues but not enough to bring it down as a whole. The album maybe drags on a little to long, and there are few weird issues with the placement of songs. (all the slower more sentimental ballads are clumped together) But as a whole, this feels like a good step forward for Shinedown.
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Distorted Sound
ATTENTION ATTENTION is a concept album. It follows an individual’s journey through life’s mental and physical battles. The reality of coming to terms with yourself and what is going on in life. What makes it so personal is that the stories being told are SHINEDOWN’s, the highs, the lows and everything in between. Mentally, this album is set to be a heavy listen.
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Metal Wani
At one time it felt as if Shinedown exploded on to your screen and into your headphones overnight, sky rocketing from rising stars to one of the most popular front-runners of contemporary rock since their formation in 2001. Now, with a catalogue of hook-laden songs filled with choruses built for arenas, there is little surprise as to why the masses continue to gravitate toward the Jacksonville, Florida rockers, and it is hard to imagine the scene without them
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Altwire
As a whole, Attention Attention is an easy step up from the band’s previous effort and offers something that is generally fun and rewarding; it’s nothing revolutionary or ground-breaking, but then it was never going to be.
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Metal Nation
From start to finish, Attention Attention will blow you away with the diverse musical influences and styles, great musicianship, and lyrics that will make you think about yourself and the world around you.
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Cryptic Rock
Again, despite what some naysayers may tell you, Shinedown has always composed songs that go straight for the gut – personal, real, and right from the heart.
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Rock at Night
Powerful and raw to the core...
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Allmusic
Continuing the tone shift of their 2015 effort Threat to Survival, Florida hard rock outfit Shinedown further amplify the polished pop sheen on their sixth set, Attention Attention.
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Outright Geekery
This is a band who have evolved to the next level. Attention Attention is brilliant, fun, and honest.
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Audio Ink Radio With Anne
While the album still has fist-pumping hard rock and angst-y passages, there’s something hopeful in their messages, and it’s a package that’s sure to keep listeners begging for more, more, more Shinedown.
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Music Existence
Doing a concept album is never easy, but Shinedown do a good job with it to make this a stand out album for the band.
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Salute
Shinedown fans have had to wait about three years for a new record from the alternative rock/metal band, but luckily their sixth studio LP ATTENTION ATTENTION has come bursting through the door and has decided to take no prisoners.
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My Global Mind
Every song is instantly memorable and the album flows seamlessly making it very difficult to pause or stop.This is the album 2018 has been waiting for. It is going to sound epic live. Shinedown at their heaviest, their most creative and their absolute best. Rock music has a future and it is Shinedown!
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Rock 'N' Load
Shinedown’s sixth studio album Attention Attention has arrived and with a bang!
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The Moshville Times
Past the short industrial intro track, the album proper blasts into life with familiar strained strings and belted drums before Brent Smith’s trademark vocals trample all in their path.
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Ghost Cult Magazine
Taking a brave approach by undertaking a concept album that discusses mental health, and an unnamed protagonist’s journey through struggles and mental health issues, Shinedown have managed to simultaneously make both a positive statement and shine a light on a pressing and ever more vital conversation, while also upping the ante on the guitars and the consistency of their songs.
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Rock Sins
Their latest Attention Attention may be their best and most varied album yet. Picking up the threads left behind by 2015’s Threat to Survival, Shinedown have turned turmoil into gold, with a concept album about the weight of human emotion.
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HysteriaMag.com
It seems crazy that a band with such an amazing arsenal of life affirming albums behind them should present something so unremarkable, something that needs to be played through five times before its songs become infectious. Don’t worry, Shinedown, we still want you to come to Australia!
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UltimateGuitar.com
In a few words new Shinedown experience is about 10 pop songs with massive more hard rock elements and few real rock things.
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Backseat Mafia
Attention Attention takes the listener on an emotional rollercoaster including dark themes with moving and thought provoking components.
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Surviving The Golden Age
Concept albums can be tricky to pull off in the current single track culture of music. But for Shinedown and Attention Attention, it seems easy. The struggle of stringing an album together in story form comes naturally to Shinedown, especially given the heavy subject matter.
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Sonic Abuse
Attention attention’ is a perfect example of an ambitious band reaching for the stars and, at times succeeding.
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The Front Row Report
It goes without saying the band nailed this on the head in so many ways.
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The Soundboard
It might be contentious, but it’s somewhat easy to see why Shinedown are one of the bigger US radio rock bands. Their choice to stay away from the more dour, sludgy post-grunge tones of their contemporaries has always fared well for them, and, at least in terms of straightforward hooks, they’ve at least managed in the past to deliver something that can hit with impact, not hindered whatsoever by Brent Smith’s genuinely impressive vocals.
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Alternative Addiction
The sixth album, and a concept album of all things from Shinedown ends up being their best work in years. This record works well on multiple levels. It’s emotionally heavy, it’s edgy, but most of all it’s just good. Listen to this one over and over this year, that’s what we’ll be doing.
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Billbaord
For the second time in its decade-plus career, Shinedown debuts at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums, Alternative Albums and Hard Rock Albums charts.
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Ignite Music Magazine
SHINEDOWN‘s most sophisticated and personal to date, it’s a journey that follows an individual from life’s lowest lows to the highest highs as anxieties dissipate and demons disappear, it hits you mental, emotional and physical throughout the whole album.
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Live Metal
The various moods and tones of the record take the listener on an exhausting emotional journey, resulting in a focus and momentum that was missing from “Threat to Survival.”
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Bluesdoodles
Shinedown’s sixth studio album ATTENTION ATTENTION has an anger, the beats are raw, guitars are gritty and the lyrics? They are bitter, hard to listen to at times as the album addresses melancholy, loss of hope and mental health. They get your attention by weaving deep lyrics that embolden the words that you listen to and digest the meaning. This is an album that drives deep into your consciousness with every listen.
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Stargazed Magazine
It is just like an American road diner. You’ll get more on your plate than you thought was possible – a bit too much of the same of what you had the last time. And a bit greasier.
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Music Mayhem
Shinedown set the message straight.“It’s about to get heavy” with their newest album “Attention Attention”.
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Pop Wrapped
Shinedown Releases New Album 'ATTENTION ATTENTION' And They Have Ours
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