The Violence is a studio album by British singer and songwriter Darren Hayman featuring backing band the Long Parliament.

The Violence is the third and final part in Hayman's Essex Trilogy.

[2] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 81 based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

[4] Marc Burrows of The Quietus wrote that "these are wonderful pop songs, each a compacted treasure of melody and heart.

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