Hurricane Bar
- Mando Diao
- Band Name: Mando Diao
- Record Label: Mute
- Release Date: Mar 8, 2005
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Hookily retro, Kinks-style Britpop. [11 Mar 2005, p.105]
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80We haven't heard such a melodic Swedish act since ABBA.
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Trading mic volleys and Velcro riffs on their second LP the quartet's frontmen lead perfect group harmonies ("White Wall") with the sweet/sour yin/yang of every great lead tandem since John & Paul.
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[A] knack for re-creating the already re-created sounds of their peers keeps rearing up on Hurricane Bar, and it docks the album points in the genuineness department.
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Mando Diao has one-upped classmates The Hives and Sahara Hotnights with its superior songwriting and musical depth. [#14, p.109]
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Hurricane Bar sees the group amp up the hand-clapping choruses and delivers a leaner collection that recalls everything from the Animals and the Small Faces to Hanoi Rocks and the Libertines.
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69Hurricane Bar has diluted the two things that made Mando Diao's first album distinct: immediacy and a sense of fun.
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These Swedes are as retro as most of their countrymen, and they have even less to say.
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Hurricane Bar is totally contrived: too much "That Thing You Do" and not enough shot-from-below-the-hip bacchanalia to keep the fire stoked.
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40Despite some evidence of talent, though, it's mostly just musical gatecrashing. [Apr 2005, p.123]
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sakig10will keep going to live up to the promised that the libertines failed to deliver
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GianlucaM10bello, veramente bello...
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KarinaP10I LOVE this album!