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Sure, we can still dance, sing along and tap our feet to anything Happiness Ltd. offers, but it’s the band’s mature tone and dive into gigantic Springsteen-like stadium rockers that set their latest release above any of their others.
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MojoHappiness Ltd is all about neat production, inventive time changes and romantically inclined witticisms. [Oct 2007, p.92]
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The trademark tempo jiggery remains and it's all threaded together with airy production that underlines rather than overwhelms.
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Under The RadarHappiness Ltd. is an ambitious album that lives up to the high bar that it sets for itself [Summer 2007, p.73]
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The booming choruses, expansive melodies, and serrated guitar lines of the band's past remain--only now they're accompanied by Edgar Allan Poe-faced couplets like ''Happiness is limited/But misery has no end.''
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For much of Happiness, Bays slurs his way through the best music Hot Hot Heat has ever made.
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If Hot Hot Heat try a little too hard here, they still pile on infectious charm and solid songwriting until resistance seems futile.
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The disco-rock jitters come back soon enough with the next selection, 'Let Me In,' but there's no denying that the group's horizons have broadened. For every throwback Cure sound-alike, such as 'Give Up?,' there's a lush retort featuring the Abbey Road Orchestra-like 'Outta Heart.'
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 14
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Mixed: 5 out of 14
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Negative: 2 out of 14
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AllanC.Sep 26, 2007
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iieeeSep 19, 2007
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justinhSep 15, 2007Immaculate! Happiness Ltd. is far more mature and unique than anything out right now.