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Alternative PressExpertly crafted and passionately played, there are enough hooks on Future Breeds to keep you singing along an new layer of aural insanity to keep discovering with each repeated listen. [Jul 2010, p.122]
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The band are in fact back in top form, showing the pretenders how it's done and throwing their detractors for a loop. There's a legitimate electricity behind Future Breeds that the genre sorely needs.
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Even though it's broken up by the occasional plodding piano number, Future Breeds can be a gauntlet of abrasive blasts of energy. Good thing, then, that it's so satisfying to make it out the other side.
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Under The RadarJust as one starts thinking there's not enough to grasp onto here, and there is generally too much all-over-the-place weirdness, one is hit by something like the impassioned singing at the end of "Jeddidiah," the climactic strings that come out of nowhere on "Buzinezz as Usual," or the breakneck rhythmic shifts of the punk rave up "Implosionatic." [Summer 2010, p.84]
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The tension between the band's hooky ways and their need to break away from them is almost palpable on Future Breeds, but pop wins this tug-of-war on its standout tracks.
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While Future Breeds isn't quite as top notch as their 'Bandages'-spawning hit, it is a strong album nonetheless and probably their finest work since.
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Future Breeds is also HHH's first self-produced album; like many rookies behind the boards, they seem to want every instrument loud as fuck.
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Full of complex and diverse arrangements, Hot Hot Heat's riskier approach on Future Breeds seems appropriate for its return to an indie label.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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AlexKJun 18, 2010Even better than what I expected, and absolutely convinced it's a grower.
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jremecJun 14, 2010Very different style from Elevator, but still great.
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[Anonymous]Jun 14, 2010