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- Summary: Hey Venus! is the Welsh band's follow-up to Love Kraft.
- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 25
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Mixed: 6 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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It's unabashedly a pop album, and by restraining its inventiveness, the band maintains a warm of sense of Zappa-esque liveliness.
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Hey Venus! is the most concise album in the band's history.
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The only shortcoming is how quickly it's all over. Roll on number nine.
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It's fair to say the songs lack the epic sweep of the last couple of albums, but there's still little about Hey Venus! to fault beyond the faint whiff of musical conservatism.
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When all these cuts add up, we wind up with an album’s worth of pleasantries.
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What Hey Venus! ultimately is, is a good record of classy pop/rock songs, arranged and produced well, shot through with a degree of personality and skill, and almost completely lacking in the inspired, eclectic madness which made "Radiator and Guerilla" so damn good.
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The album's psychedelic pop runs out of gas near the end in cringe-worthy Battersea Odyssey and Let The Wolves Howl At The Moon, but by then you're won over and wondering how you slept on this band for the past nine years.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 1 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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LiamRFeb 24, 2008
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FunFactorSep 5, 2007
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skJan 21, 2008An excellent piece of work.again. how can SFA still doing this after all these years? Only Venus could tell... essential.
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AlanD.Sep 4, 2007Getting back to the stuff they do best,quirky narratives and great choruses! Roll on the second part !!
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LizJan 22, 2008Pure pop joy. It would get a 10 if it wasn't so short.
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BetinhOct 11, 2007
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IbanL.Jan 4, 2008
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