Happyness
- The Aluminum Group
- Band Name: The Aluminum Group
- Record Label: Wishing Tree Records
- Release Date: Oct 15, 2002
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90Some may find the Aluminum Group's love-on-ice songs too slick, too lacking in visceral emotion. But like a cool breeze in summer, the Navins make melancholy a delicious treat.
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80Hear most of these songs a few times and you'll feel like you've known them all your life.
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80Exquisite. [Feb 2003, p.80]
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Rarely, if ever, have synths sounded so truly urbane, and the cumulative effect is postmodernist pop music that sounds simultaneously cutting edge, retro, and utterly timeless.
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80Could be a Tortoise record with vocals. [#57, p.81]
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Thematically it's a less ambitious record than Pelo (and in terms of scale, Pedals), but listen to it as the Navins' Exile in Guyville and its truths are heartbreaking in their weary familiarity.
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70Like a night taxi ride along a broad, lighted, skyscraper-lined city street, Happyness, the band's latest, feels wondrous, daring and slightly dangerous.
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[The music] is an unholy cross between Steely Dan, Elliott Smith and Air.
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70It's comforting, for sure, and you could very well fall asleep listening, or use it as background music, but you'd be missing a lot.
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40Their sense of perfection is also their downfall. [#11, p.124]
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Paul10extraordinary!
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Rickk10Absolutely their Best Album Yet.... A brilliant follow up to their last album Pelo .. John and Frank are increadable