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Jan 31, 2012Hospitality is a sharp, well-rehearsed guitar-pop collection.
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Apr 5, 2012If this is bedroom pop, it surely stems from the most cluttered yet colourful bedroom imaginable.
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Feb 2, 2012Overall, there is a fine balance of sounds, feelings, and textures on the album, enough to make Hospitality both a vindication of promise already displayed by the band and hope for further greatness.
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Jan 31, 2012The melodies are stickier than hot tar, but it's those vivid little scenes that lodge in your head the longest.
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Mar 12, 2012For all its supposed politeness, this is distinct, sharp music.
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Jan 30, 2012Regardless of their ability to stand out in a crowd, they write tunes sharper than a thumbtack, with words that ramble around in fascinating stream-of-consciousness webs.
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Jan 30, 2012The not-new songs here don't sound reworked so much as run through some kind of cartoony scrubbing contraption, Wonka Wash-style, emerging stunningly clean out the other end, the curvy surfaces all gleaming in the sun.
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Apr 16, 2012Fans of airy independent music are sure to welcome this disc with open arms, but a few minor quibbles mean that the rest of us might want to hold back for more until the red carpet is rolled out.
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UncutApr 6, 2012Amber Papini's beautiful, whimsical vocals are what strike you first when listening to Hospitality's more than decent debut. [May 2012, p.75]
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Apr 4, 2012It's as if Hospitality are using these songs to channel gnawing anxieties about their futures on one hand, while using insightful lyricism and breezy pop stylings to romanticise the plight of barely scraping together rent on the other
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Feb 29, 2012These songs are smart and ingratiating, and slightly squeamish about the world of privileged, post-collegiate ennui they inhabit, and... that's what they are.
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Feb 3, 2012[Hospitality is] accomplished and bright, with more room to grow.
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Feb 2, 2012Shortcomings are well disguised, and even when they are exposed, the originality of Papini's storytelling is enough to keep the ears alert for several listens.
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Feb 1, 2012Hospitality's debut is a sugar-rush of an album, albeit one given acerbic snap by Papini's delivery.
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Jan 30, 2012This album makes the case they deserve our attention and our own hospitality.
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Jan 30, 2012In the end Hospitality is a solid pop album through and through.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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May 10, 2012