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While the orchestration and production are impeccable and finely crafted, it's not hard to pick out influences from the 1980s, ranging from brooding rock to pulsing synthetic pop.
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Like all pop music that treads so close to the overly-sappy line, the release stumbles only when it moves a little too close to adult contemporary. Fortunately, it only does that a couple of times.
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With its charming and imaginative love poems as lyrics, Heart is a true love album that hits all the warm and fuzzy spots directly.
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Heart is a valuable pop record for those of us whose cardiac muscle hasn't stained completely black.
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You'd be hard-pressed to ask much more from a record.
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Fans of dream pop and chamber pop alike will find a lot to enjoy on this one.
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More New Order and Saint Etienne than Smiths, and with male and female vocals, the band comes across as an electro-pop Belle and Sebastian.
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It all ends up sounding very expressive, in a blurry sort of way.
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Heart is an exceptional sophomore effort, bursting at the seams with pop content, but the prism through which it travels bends it, taints it and humanizes it in ways that are at once soul-clenching and unpretentious.
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It is utterly listenable and endlessly sweet.
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More than a few songs... possess some of the kitschy cool of recent records by Ivy, Venus Hum, and Sixpence None The Richer, though they stick lower to the ground.
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FilterGorgeous. [#7, p.92]
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BlenderCampbell and Millan use boy-girl harmonies to make a mockery of romance. [Jan 2004, p.109]
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MojoGlistening, radio-friendly fare. [May 2003, p.108]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 32
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Mixed: 2 out of 32
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Negative: 3 out of 32
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LoganMay 14, 2007
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LuckyMay 12, 2007A classic!
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PacoEApr 30, 2007Beautiful. That pretty much sums up this amazing album.