Producing first week sales of 58,000 copies, a low for the band, the album received generally positive reviews from critics.
[6][7] On August 22, Armstrong gave preview of some songs through his iPhone on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1 in the UK.
[10] On October 29, it was announced that the album's release will be pushed forward to December 11, 2012, due to Green Day having to cancel their upcoming 2012 section of their 2012/2013 tour and delay much of the 2013 leg.
will be geared more towards stadium rock and will have more of a grandiose sound complete with string arrangements and brass sections.
"We also wanted to go pre-Dookie, back to our love of Fifties and Sixties music, close-to-the-bone rock and roll.
He has also stated the following of the album's opening track: "Brutal Love", which marries glam rock, doo-wop and soul music, includes swelling strings at its conclusion.
[18] Ray Rahman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album "lets their tightly wound hooks decompress, delivering stadium-worthy three-chord nods to various ghosts of rock past".
", writing that it "feels like ... a collection of songs capturing the band at its loosest and poppiest, throwing away tunes without much care.
[28] Although he found it to be "littered with head-scratching filler and awkward sonic diversions", Ryan Reed of Paste called ¡Tré!
"[22] Alternative Press commented that the album "feels scattershot and slapped together, making it difficult to enjoy on its own merits.
Club observed a lack of "inspiration" and wrote that the album "succeeds most as an exercise in influence-dropping and self-recycling".
[23] AJ Ramirez of PopMatters criticized its instrumentation as "functional and characterless", while critiquing the trilogy in general, "The wide spread afforded by the ¡Uno!/¡Dos!/¡Tré!
The music may be just as strong, tight, and impeccable — this is a band that's been going at it for more than a quarter of a century, after all — but there's a lightness missing here, a lack of passion."
[27] The album debuted at number 13 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 58,000 copies in the United States.
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