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10.0
16138
10.0 |
Independent on Sunday
A debut whose keywords are opulence, elegance, dignity and poise
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9.0
16205
9.0 |
PopMatters
Such is the divine simplicity of the music on Happiness that sitting in a corner crying and punching the air for 48 minutes seems a perfectly viable option
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8.0
16049
8.0 |
NME
A guilty pleasure? Not in the slightest. These are songs to be treasured without a shred of shame.
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6.0
16064
6.0 |
Mojo
A sometimes frustrating, always overblown album. Print edition only
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6.0
16084
6.0 |
The Independent
It's efficient and stylish, but lacks innovation: music that moisturises a touch too much
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6.0
16149
6.0 |
musicOMH
Awash with the kind of emotion you'd find in an end-of-season montage
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6.0
16048
6.0 |
The Scotsman
[They] seem to have stepped straight out of an episode of Top Of The Pops circa 1985 with their austere catalogue model looks and urbane but banal pop tracks
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6.0
16192
6.0 |
BBC
If Hurts could also have been consistent with the substance, Happiness would have trounced its 80s counterparts and many of its contemporaries, too
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6.0
16211
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
One thing’s for certain, the spirit of 1984 has found his unfinished business
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5.0
16174
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Happiness promises the rough edges and absurdity of one era’s pop, but for the most part gives the mum-friendliness of the next
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4.0
16102
4.0 |
The Guardian
Hurts' big idea involves welding post-Oasis mass singalong choruses to electronic pop. It's not a bad idea, but nor is it a particularly novel one
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4.0
16783
4.0 |
Rave Magazine
The problem with Hurts’ approach is that it’s one hundred percent style over substance
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4.0
16832
4.0 |
Clash
Unfortunately, the album barely reaches the most reasonable of expectations
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