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Title: BR's most mature album
Review: Recipe represented the peak of Bad Religion's experimentation with the formula laid out on Suffer before the lapse into formulaic songwriting on Stranger than Fiction. It's the most melodic of their peak-era records, and holds up as their most complete album. It would have been interesting to see where BR would be musically today had they further pursued some of the ideas on this album-- to some extent, 2010's Dissent of Man echoed Recipe's broadened musical palette, but not to the same extent or with the same confidence. Not their last good album, but certainly their last essential album.
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