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66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews What's this?

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5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for the duo of Sierra and Bianca Casady was recorded in the south of France.
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  • Record Label: Lost Girl Records
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Trip-Hop, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Dream Pop, Post-Rock
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Lucky Clover
There was a summer breeze All things a blurry dream In the shade of the tree There's no more lucky clover It's the last September ever If you fall in... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. 80
    Heartache City has much more in common with the band’s first two albums, the freakiness of their folk here is undeniable, but the tracks all share a strong backbone of hip hop and afro-beat which elevates them above the streamlined pop melee.
  2. Nov 18, 2015
    80
    At times the sheer weirdness and creepiness of the record can be a bit much, but that’s also what makes CocoRosie so great.
  3. Nov 18, 2015
    70
    As always, the beauty of the duo's music makes these moments all the more haunting.
  4. Nov 20, 2015
    70
    In this Heartache City, where tunes have something pleasurable to them, everyone’s not scared of broken hearts--they’re scared of dying where they’ll never be found.
  5. Uncut
    Dec 11, 2015
    70
    Now the songs are sharper and prettier. [Jan 2016, p.75]
  6. 60
    Valgeir Sigurosson’s production of 2013’s Tales Of A Grasswidow lent it a cohesion which is sadly absent from Heartache City.
  7. Q Magazine
    Dec 14, 2015
    40
    Their self-indulgent scrawl is writ so large it would be impossibly cloying when if it were all as good. Which it isn't, not by a long shot. [Jan 2016, p.109]
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