Make Up The Breakdown
- Hot Hot Heat
- Band Name: Hot Hot Heat
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Release Date: Oct 8, 2002
- Summary: This Sub Pop debut for the British Columbia band falls into the 80s/punk revival category occupied by the likes of French Kicks and Radio 4, although Cure comparisons are more likely (since lead singer Steve Bays' voice sounds, at times, almost identical to Robert Smith's).
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 23
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Mixed: 7 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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Despite all this seemingly new wave-laden, impeccably cool, retrograde influence, 'Make Up The Break Down' is indisputably now.
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Amazingly, the entire package coalesces without sounding tacky, no matter how funhouse-quirky the instrumentation gets.
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Splendid ramshackle pop corniness. [Dec 2002, p.81]
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60When on their game -- about two-thirds of this to-the-point-set -- Hot Hot Heat are too breathlessly enjoyable to refuse. [Apr 2003, p.98]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Mixed: 0 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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AshlieW.10
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KessT8
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TimB6
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briana.0it sucked so bad i threw it out the window
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