title: Songs of Love and Revolution
text: # Songs of Love and Revolution
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Metacritic | 80/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Beats Per Minute | 80% |
  | Classic Rock | |
  | Under the Radar | 8/10 |
  
  Songs of Love and Revolution is the twelfth studio album by English noise rock band The Telescopes. It was released on February 5, 2021, by Tapete Records.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Songs of Love and Revolution was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 5 reviews.
  
  Writing for AllMusic, Fred Thomas explained: "Twelfth studio album Songs of Love & Revolution continues the group's fixation with noise-dazzled psychedelic drone rock, but the production is clearer and the songs hit with direct impact. These nine songs are some of the most neatly rendered of the band's post-2010 output, but lose none of their mind-bending effect in the production upgrade. If anything, the album finds the Telescopes delivering their messages of self-discovery and cosmic love louder than ever." Tim Sentz of Beats Per Minute said: "Songs of Love and Revolution, the band’s 12th album, comes after a decade of reinvention and experimentation. All the arrangements on their latest take influence from their 2010s material, but this time around every element coexists with one another, creating a sublime noise bath. Songs of Love and Revolution finds a home, a warm center, that crossroads between shoegaze, noise rock, ambient fuzz, and believe it or not – pop. In fact, this could be Lawrie’s most accessible album to date, and that’s taking into account Hidden Fields closeted pop." In a review for Classic Rock, True Everett gave the release a four out of five stars, describing the album as "hypnotic, breathtaking and quite, quite beautiful."
  
  ## Charts
  
  Chart performance for Songs of Love and Revolution :
  
  | Chart (2021) | Peak position |
  | - | - |
  | UK Independent Albums (OCC) | 35 |
  