★★★★★
Whether you're a fan or a detester of his work both musically and in film, there's no denying that Jared Leto is an avid enthusiast of being ambitious. What the ambitious ideas he's incorporated into the styles his band 30 Seconds to Mars have tackled on their albums have always lacked is focus and guidance...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-06-27
★★★★★
Release Date: May 21 2013 For as long as I've been into music, I've normally just found out about music, thanks to the internet, magazines, radio, and TV. I was never one for friends and/or significant others to recommend me things, because not many people really seem to know what I like and what I don't. I had known about California alternative rock trio 30 (or Thirty) Seconds to Mars for a long time, but I never was into that kind of music. At least, until this year, anyway...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-06-21
★★★★★
After the success of 2009's This Is War, 30 Seconds To Mars had to do something big to top it. They accomplished this by sending the first single "Up In The Air" into space prior to the release of the album. Although this was big publicity for the album, the band's fourth album Love Lust Faith + Dreams doesn't really live up to expectations and varies vastly from the previous three albums...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-06-14
★★★★★
Thirty Seconds To Mars divide opinion: some love their particular brand of showmanship, others find them faintly ridiculous. But maybe it just comes down to whether you get them or not. You'll know the formula by now, a theatrical approach to hard rock with shades of Queen and Muse, 30TM have built a career by walking the fine line that divides hip and unhip. The big hair and mascara, exuding a sci-fi fantasy of outsider cool, gives you an idea of what to expect...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-05-23
★★★★★
Alternative rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars return with their fourth studio album and first album in four years, Love Lust Faith + Dreams, following 2009's This Is War. Conceptual and ambitious, Love Lust Faith + Dreams has its finer moments as well as moments that are overwrought, overextended, and overproduced. The best material graces the front of the album while the middle and back-half are less triumphant...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-05-24
★★★★★
With 2009's This Is War, 30 Seconds To Mars released their finest work, a towering, anthemic album on a vast scale, and it was well suited to the larger venues they made the jump to. It would have been hard for anyone to make a record bigger than that, and with Love Lust Faith + Dreams they appear to have instead pulled back and made something that is a little more compact and intimate. This does not mean they have gone lo-fi, and they maintain their signature sound throughout...
- altpress.com
2013-06-22
★★★★★
As you would expect for a band led by a film star, 30 Seconds To Mars are not a band to do things by halves when it comes to promoting themselves. As such, it was not particularly surprising to hear that they were premiering the first single from their fourth album by literally sending it into space. While it paved the way for numerous bad puns, it's hard not to admire Jared Leto and co's imagination and ambition...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-05-22
★★★★★
As you would expect for a band led by a film star, 30 Seconds To Mars are not a band to do things by halves when it comes to promoting themselves. As such, it was not particularly surprising to hear that they were premiering the first single from their fourth album by literally sending it into space. While it paved the way for numerous bad puns, it's hard not to admire Jared Leto and co's imagination and ambition...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-08-27
★★★★★
If Derek Zoolander made a record it would sound like Thirty Seconds to Mars: stadium rock so vapid and bombastic that if frontman Jared Leto were pulling off some kind of long-duration joke (this, inexplicably, is the band's fourth studio album: the previous two have both gone platinum) it would be genius. Sadly, though, this is humourless...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-05-19
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