Life, Love & Hope
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Life, Love & Hope
Life, Love & Hope is the sixth studio album by American rock band Boston. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
2013 - Everywhere, Tom Scholz fine-tunes the angelic-choir harmonies and aerosol-guitar crescendos until they’re spotlessly, unmistakably Bostonlike. Some things never change — but remembering a sound isn’t always enough.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Boston's sixth album, 'Life, Love & Hope,' is a rather frustrating, confusing affair.
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Angry Metal Guy
More importantly, most of these songs are generic, half-assed pop rock, far below the standards of a legendary group like Boston.
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Classic Rock Revisited
The bottom line here is that this is a damn good rock record filled with plenty of hooks, melodies and harmonies to keep the BOSTON flag flying high for many more years to come.
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New Noise
If you’re looking for a throwback to yesteryear, then my score won’t matter and I highly suggest that you give this album a try. It’s outta this world!
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Markus Heavy Music Blog
The album is not really bad, but I recommend to everybody to check it out first.
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Get Ready to Rock
2013 - Overall more enjoyable than ‘Corporate America’, however it’s a shame there are not many all new songs on here and for me it lacks a real rocker
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All Music
despite the few moments when things come together nicely, maybe Scholz has finally lost his touch. Check back in another decade for further developments.
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Herald Standard
2013 - Boston’s sixth album may feature the familiar image of the spaceship guitar on the cover, but what’s inside is only a feeble imitation of the band’s previous offerings.
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Pop Culture Beast
If you are a fan of Boston’s 1st 2 classic albums then do yourself a favor and stay as far away from “Life, Love & Hope” as you possibly can because it is a complete mess.
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Amps and Green Screens
Overall this is NOT a bad record. But the awful drum sound and the vocals being way too high up in the mix really do take away from a mostly good collection of songs.
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Danger Dog
With little doubt the trademark Boston sound is there, you can hear it the guitar riffs and solos, that touch of piano and organ, and the meticulous and lush Scholz production.
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Metal Talk
There is still something magical about 'Life, Love & Hope' and Boston fans will still find enough here to marvel at the wondrous mind of a genius.
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Backstage Auctions
Lush strings, rich Spanish acoustic guitar plucking, compressed-air keyboards and found sounds, such as the black helicopters portending a sinister conspiracy in the clunky, lifeless "Sail Away," are integrated seamlessly throughout Life, Love & Hope, as Scholz seeks to broaden Boston's palette to accommodate a more progressive, even contemporary, approach.
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Rock Review Phil
2014 - The truth is, the songs are all really good and they do sound different enough from each other, but as I mentioned time and time and time again, that electric drum sound playing practically the same beat in well over half of the songs is just so unfortunate.
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