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Q (Magazine) (p.122) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[O]pener 'The Best Revenge' and 'In A Modern World' are accomplished slices of tuneful electro-pop reminiscent of early Depeche Mode."12.00138
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Spin (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Brooding intensity powers the title track...while arena-ready riffing lights up 'Outta Heart'..."Entertainment Weekly (p.149) - "The booming choruses, expansive melodies, and serrated guitar lines of the band's past remain..." -- Grade: BUncut (p.107) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[When they] go for real emotion on the aching 'Outta Heart', they end up with easily their best song."Alternative Press (p.169) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]rontman Steve Bays proves he still has a unique way of wringing the syllables of a phrase for all they're worth....It's still a blast to listen to Hot Hot Heat when they sound like they're having fun..."11.07432
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"...HAPPINESS stretches its taboo subject matter to the limits..." Sight and Sound "...Unique and unmissable....HAPPINESS is potently funny and painfully affecting, often at the same time..." Rolling Stone "...Tender, shocking, cathartically honest....Solondz leaves us giddy....Breaks through to haunted levels of erotic compulsion that place it close to the hypnotic artistry of BLUE VELVET..." -- Rating: A Entertainment Weekly "...A superb black comedy....HAPPINESS leaves viewers feeling disturbed, amazed, and fascinated..." Box Office "...[A] marvelous, multifaceted, and endlessly unsettling third feature....[Solondz is] an imaginative, witty, and deeply subversive filmmaker..." Premiere "...Solondz has an impeccable ear for current speech patterns....He also has a gift for skewering self-centeredness..." Los Angeles Times "...Blackly comic, yet touching and sympathetic, it never flinches in its depiction of human darkness..." Total Film10.5293
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Wonderful Life' and 'Silver Lining' make for a strong opening..."9.339624
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Entertainment Weekly (6/5/98, p.85) - "...[Joe Pernice's] new band's elegant piano foundation, irony-free songwriting and musical debt to Nick Drake and Brian Wilson make them sound like a Ben Folds Five for adults." - Rating: A-7.942887
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Spin (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Brooding intensity powers the title track...while arena-ready riffing lights up 'Outta Heart'..."Entertainment Weekly (p.149) - "The booming choruses, expansive melodies, and serrated guitar lines of the band's past remain..." -- Grade: BUncut (p.107) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[When they] go for real emotion on the aching 'Outta Heart', they end up with easily their best song."Alternative Press (p.169) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]rontman Steve Bays proves he still has a unique way of wringing the syllables of a phrase for all they're worth....It's still a blast to listen to Hot Hot Heat when they sound like they're having fun..."7.934992
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JazzTimes (8/97, p.92) - "...his own brand of mainstream-meets-free-jazz concepts....BRIDGES features seven Hart originals. They prove him of versatile and challenging mind. He does some exploring of offbeat time signatures and minor modes as well as digs into swing, blues and funk..."7.907434
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Rolling Stone (p.134) - 3 stars out of 4 -- "[The songs] have an appealingly ripe-around-the-edges psych-rock feel and there's lots of off-handedly charming stuff."Q (p.150) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Pollard produces diamonds such as the wracked 'Give Up The Grape' and sweetly breezy 'Boxing About'."Alternative Press (p.188) - "Much of NORMAL HAPPINESS combines the effortless charm of classic power-pop with elements of prog as put through the filter of early Genesis or Ween."Magnet (p.99) - "These songs constantly twist melodies and turn pop songwriting structures inside out, making NORMAL HAPPINESS Pollard's most efficient and exploratory album in years."CMJ (p.53) - "[C]runchy, cockney-crooned, two-minute nuggets that recall why we originally fell in love with the man."Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "NORMAL HAPPINESS is a zesty garage-psych set that draws on Moby Grape and '66-vintage Townshend."7.397421
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Entertainment Weekly (12/3/99, p.103) - "...finds the band at their brattiest best but even the tamer '90s tracks prove Nikki Sixx to be a fine writer of pop songs." - Rating: A-6.026939
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Pitchfork (Website) - "The tunes on the collection appear as if by magic. You hear people talking, and then their speech is transformed into honeyed horn patter or galloping guitar arpeggios."Clash (magazine) (p.112) - "THE HAPPINESS PROJECT began as an experimental live project....Patience reveals some rich musicality."5.312162
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Clash (magazine) - "A sweetly melancholic, analogue warmth pervades this record with Nico-like hushed vocals atop floating acoustic guitar and laconic beats."Uncut (magazine) (p.91) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Their songs often recall the Europhilic climes of Saint Etienne's TIGER BAY-era ballads, partly thanks to Regina Janssen's droll, almost detached delivery."5.290513
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