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Hit After Hit

Sonny & The Sunsets

Hit After Hit

Second album from the San Francisco-based 60s influenced indie pop band fronted by Sonny Smith

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7.6

Label
Fat Possum
UK Release date
18/04/2011
US Release date
12/04/2011
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  1. 8.0 |   Spin

    The playing is deceptively forceful, and the songs cut surprisingly deep
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    It’s a formula that would fail in the hands of a less-interesting songwriter or a less compelling singer
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  3. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Most of the songs clock in at under three minutes, and the Sunsets definitely know how to make the most of the time they’ve chosen to take
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  4. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    For those who dig pop with a lot of jangle, here’s a band to fall in love with
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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Beautiful, bruised pop that pulls hard at the heartstrings. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Blurt

    These are fun songs, silly songs, but they are also well-written and melodically addictive
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  7. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    The whole thing sounds like something they could've bashed out in a long afternoon, killing time waiting for a midnight screening of Rock 'n' Roll High School
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  8. 7.5 |   Bowlegs

    The album belts out eleven tracks, all barely over the two minute mark, none really interested in getting too heavy – fun while it lasts basically
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  9. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Hit After Hit is a simple, charming, not-a-note-wasted lark of the kind that seems to be in short supply these days
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