User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
Brushes With Happiness Image
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
tbd

No user score yet- Awaiting 3 more ratings

  • Summary: The latest release for the British indie rock trio was recorded in one take with the instrumentation improvised based on frontman David Tattersall's lyrics.
Buy Now
Buy on
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Uncut
    Jul 24, 2018
    70
    The result is a hushed, spectral delight. [Jul 2018, p.37]
  2. Jul 24, 2018
    60
    The hazy, literary reverie can start to sound samey, but the Waves are certainly ploughing a unique furrow.
  3. Q Magazine
    Jul 24, 2018
    60
    This slow-moving record is full of secrets yet reveals barely anything at all. [Summer 2018, p.116]
  4. Mojo
    Jul 24, 2018
    60
    It proceeds funereally, as if in the suspended animation of a nocturnal hallucination, like sleepwalking through a dark and empty airport, but also right there in the room as Wave Pics' on-the-fly magic unfolds. [Sep 2018, p.93]
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of
  2. Mixed: 0 out of
  3. Negative: 0 out of