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Favourite Colours
by The Sadies
The Toronto, Canada country-surf-rockers led by the Good brothers (Dallas and Travis) return with a self-produced effort. Robyn Hitchcock guests on one track.
| LABEL: |
Yep Roc |
| RELEASE DATE: |
24 August 2004 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Indie, Rock, Alt-Country |

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90
PopMatters
The Sadies' best album yet.

90
Mojo
A seamless, melodic blend of psychedelia and C&W... the songs and instrumentals here hang together beautifully. [Nov 2004, p.95]
90
Splendid
Imagine a troupe of gloomy cow-punks careening down a thundering Hawaiian pipeline and you've got a bead on their wildly divergent sound.

80
Uncut
Hones the Southern harmonies and guitar-pickin' crosstalk of the brothers Good. [Nov 2004, p.116]
80
New Musical Express
They can still write the most incredibly beautiful songs. [23 Oct 2004, p.49]
80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
The results [on previous albums] came off a little mannered, but on Favourite Colours, the band finally exhibits an integrated command of its genre obsessions, playing chilly-but-urgent music with a distinctly Sadies flavor.

80
All Music Guide
Favourite Colours is lovely and adventurous stuff that proves the Sadies are only getting better with each trip into the studio.

80
Amazon.com
There's an emerging depth and pensiveness to their songwriting, a growing sense of spirituality and drama.

72
Pitchfork
But while the album is stylistically and sonically brilliant, it still suffers from the primary flaw of the band's four previous albums: Their songwriting hasn't made the same leap as their chops.


The average user rating for this album is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
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