Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AbsolutePunk | (78%) link |
| Allmusic | link |
| Digital Spy | link |
| Entertainment.ie | link |
| Kerrang! | |
| Metal Hammer | |
| NME | link |
| The Observer | link |
| Planet Sound | link |
| Rock Sound | link |
| The Times | link |
| Ultimate-Guitar | (8.9/10) link |
Common Dreads has polarised critics. Ultimate-Guitar rated the album with an overall rating of 9.3/10. Similarly, music magazines Kerrang! and Metal Hammer gave very positive reviews, Kerrang! rating the album 5/5. The album also has its critics. Digital Spy gave the album 3/5 calling it 'hit and miss'. Pete Paphides of The Times gave the album 2 stars out of 5, describing it as "a titanically inadvisable mash-up between Gallows and John Craven’s Newsround." Similarly, Lauren Murphy of entertainment.ie described it as "an overkill of brawn, insufficient brain."
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