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Nov 18, 2015Heartache 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.
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Nov 18, 2015At times the sheer weirdness and creepiness of the record can be a bit much, but that’s also what makes CocoRosie so great.
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UncutDec 11, 2015Now the songs are sharper and prettier. [Jan 2016, p.75]
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Nov 20, 2015In 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.
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Nov 18, 2015As always, the beauty of the duo's music makes these moments all the more haunting.
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Nov 18, 2015Valgeir Sigurosson’s production of 2013’s Tales Of A Grasswidow lent it a cohesion which is sadly absent from Heartache City.
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Q MagazineDec 14, 2015Their 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]