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Heart On

EMAILPRINTby Eagles Of Death Metal

Eagles Of Death Metal reviews
74
9.2 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 19 critic reviews
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Based on 20 votes
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Album Info

Label: Downtown

Release Date: 28 October 2008

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock, Alternative

Summary

The Josh Homme band fronted by Jesse Hughes releases its third album.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

The Onion (A.V. Club)

EODM thrives on confidence, not exploration, and Heart On finds the pair plenty cocksure.

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80

Urb

The tracks on Heart On don't veer from EoDM's favored subjects of Los Angeles fakery, sex, girls, sexy girls, and how they're gonna get sexy girls. But shit, that doesn't matter because they're sure as hell sticking to what they do best (with their trusty cow-bell, no less): they make you want to rock out and get your sleazy dance-on at some greasy bar with a PBR.

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80

Rolling Stone

On their third album, the duo are as danceable as ever, but they've tiptoed away from straight musical pastiche, crudding up their blues boogie with low-fi fuzziness and oddball percussion.

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80

Spin

QOTSA may be rock at the edge of the abyss, but Heart On vaults right over, taking flight on an updraft of woozy audacity and shuddering riffs.

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80

All Music Guide

Fans of the goofy rock send-ups Hughes and Homme did on "Peace Love Death Metal" and "Death by Sexy" might think the pair are taking themselves too seriously here, but they add just enough maturity to the mix to make Heart On a consistently great album.

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80

Uncut

All round, a party atmosphere prevails--and undoubtedly a good time is had by all.

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80

The Guardian

This album knows how to party; it rocks like a beast.

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74

Pitchfork

Heart On does reveal a slightly maturing sense of pop songcraft from Hughes and Homme.

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70

Boston Globe

The songs themselves live in the present--and live all over the place.

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70

Blender

With his buddy Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, Hughes gets the details right all over Heart On.

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70

Dot Music

Eagles Of Death Metal have crafted a soundtrack to hedonism, a series of paeans to earthly and earthy pleasures and deliciously illicit behaviour. It's enormous fun all right but it's a long way from being a joke.

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70

New Musical Express

Ocasionally, the shtick does wear a little thin and they lope off towards water-treading mid-pace. The line between parody and genius is always going to be fine.

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60

Q Magazine

The first half of Heart On is a heroically hedonistic party, but it's the subsequent comedown that, inevitable, lingers longer. [Feb 2009, p.113]

60

Mojo

Their third album is more highly evolved than what normally constitutes straight up good-time rock. [Feb 2009, p.105]

60

Magnet

The duo’s third LP won’t reconcile the two camps; in fact, Heart On may be the first EODM album to really make the detractors’ case. Chugging riffs and falsetto vocals abound on these 12 tracks, but instead of indulging whatever black magic that kept 2004’s "Peace Love Death Metal" and 2006’s "Death By Sexy" from devolving into jokey karaoke, Hughes and Homme decide to play it mostly straight.

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60

PopMatters

Aside from being completely disposable, Heart On isn’t quite a bad album.

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60

Prefix Magazine

The third album of the formula, the lovely-titled Heart On, shows that the Eagles of Death Metal have reached their limits, but not without a noble effort to keep on rockin’.

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60

Alternative Press

Heart On is on par with the band's previous efforts when it comes to ultra-swarthy innuendos. [Dec 2008, p.146]

50

Under The Radar

Heart-On, despite its snarling, strutting riffs, feels disappointingly lightweight. [Year End 2008]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 20 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Steve M gave it a6:
Ok album by a great band,but lacks the unique edge and wit of the first 2 albums. Too many slightly lame Stones pastiches and a muddier production, but worth getting for 'Solo Flights', an amazing ode to masturbation.

Keyton E. gave it a10:
Excellent. Absolutely superb. Their best offering yet. Everything that's great about EoDM is captured on this album and refined to perfection. It's the perfect mix of catchy EoDM tunes you expect with a couple of interesting more complex tracks thrown in. If you're a fan, this is a must have!

Justin P. gave it a10:
I love this album. It wakes me up in the morning and puts me in the right mood for the day. Awesome!

Andjjru P. gave it a10:
Oh man, just as much fun as their first two albums, but surprisingly complex.

R R M. gave it a10:
Perfect, sexual rock n roll at its best! On par with the other albums. Brilliant.

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