V (2007) Album Review

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All Music Guide

V is among the band's most confident and inspired releases.
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ShakingThrough.net

Ed Kowalczyk's aggressive mysticism still grates, but V counters it with the most self-assured rocking since Throwing Copper , especially on "Simple Creed," the majestic "Flow" and the Middle-Eastern-tinged "Forever May Not Be Long Enough." A healthy,
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Rolling Stone

Kowalczyk may have filtered some of the bluster from his lyrics, but he has wisely left the jagged edges in his music.
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Sonicnet

V doesn't bring Live right back to earth, but it does find the group playing to strengths, experimenting with recording techniques, and striving for renewed relevance.
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Rolling Stone

Talk about miracles: live, once unremittingly serious purveyors of three-chord diatribes of spiritual longing, have finally lightened up. On the lilting confessional ballad "Call Me a Fool," vocalist Ed Kowalczyk shares what he learned on what
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