Tyranny (The Voidz album)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
Clash	(7/10)[9]
Consequence	Favorable[10]
Drowned in Sound	(9.75/10)[11]
Exclaim!	(8/10)[12]
The Line of Best Fit	(6.5/10)[13]
NME	(6/10)[14]
Paste	(6/10)[15]
Pitchfork	(4.9/10)[16]
Rolling Stone	[17]

The album received generally positive reviews, though outlets often expressed mixed opinions. Rolling Stone gave the album 3.5 stars, calling it "the sound of a man shedding his skin. Not pretty, but more compelling for it."[17] Paste gave it 6.0,[15] while Exclaim! gave it 8 out of 10, calling it "a seriously sad album...compelling."[12] Lucas Villa of AXS awarded four out of five stars, writing, "Casablancas continues to exercise his experimental muscle in the most raucous ways with The Voidz in tow."[18] Benji Taylor of Clash gave the album 7/10, calling it "a weirdly wonderful mesh of awkward time signatures, unconventional song structures and, in general, unbridled madness".[9] Pitchfork was among the most negative of the reviewers, giving the album a 4.9 and calling it unlistenable and a failure.

GQ printed in a 2014 interview with Casablancas entitled, "Julian Casablancas Is Done Trying to Save You",

The record's called Tyranny, and that's sort of what it's about, Casablancas says: rapacious oil companies and a not-so-free press and environmental depredation. Money. Health care. Nightmares. The moon. "It's not very sexy to talk about these things, especially in a place like America, where things are, like, the best. But it just feels like we’re inside that Versailles bubble, you know?"[19]

• Julian Casablancas – vocals
• Jeramy "Beardo" Gritter – guitar
• Amir Yaghmai – guitar
• Jacob "Jake" Bercovici – bass guitar, synthesizers
• Alex Carapetis – drums, percussion
• Jeff Kite – keyboards