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Future Breeds

Hot Hot Heat

Future Breeds

Fifth album of indie rock from 80s influenced British Columbia band

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5.7

Label
Dine Alone
UK Release date
07/06/2010
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  1. 8.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Even taking the occasionally dissonant chord and liberally applied distortion into account, the pop pedigree here is strong and the band have crafted a varied album without losing an overall sense of coherence
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  2. 7.0 |   Blurt

    The overall thrust of the album is far more concerned with advancing the edgier side of their sound
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  3. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    Even a half-return-to-form was necessary for a group that a lot of people were on the verge of writing off
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  4. 6.0 |   NME

    For the most part, ‘Future Breeds’ crackles and fizzes with electro-punk-tinged invention
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  5. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  6. 6.0 |   Spin

    Hot Hot Heat crank the guitars and boost the synth squelch on their liveliest album since 2002's Make Up the Breakdown
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  7. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    These Vancouver based indie-disco hucksters are doing their best to stay relevant in these intervening years, and with Future Breeds prove that their hook factory has far from ceased production
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  9. 5.0 |   FasterLouder

    Hot Hot Heat have always been erratic, scattergun songwriters, and you really feel that some restraint was required from the producer’s chair to allow the quality of the songwriting to really come through
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  10. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    Noisy, tuneless, and empty
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  11. 4.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

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