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- Summary: The second full-length release for Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg was influenced by the breakup of their six-year relationship.
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- Record Label: Bella Union
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jan 25, 2019Bringing emotional weight and measured playfulness to every song while maintaining a fascinating, cosmic soundscape, it's an album that lingers.
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Q MagazineJan 23, 2019It might be falling apart, but it comes together beautifully. [Feb 2019, p.115]
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Jan 28, 2019Mystery Hour is a wistful, weird collection that shows once again that break up songs are the best.
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Jan 23, 2019While a lot of this album is sonically in the terrain of the new psychedelia, it is emotionally accessible to anyone.
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Jan 25, 2019Mystery Hour is quite an accomplishment professionally and personally, as Bagg and Hill are congruently creative and confessional in expressing their arc with eloquent honesty and striving, novel artistry. Each track freshly reveals a part of their puzzle with style-shifting panache while simultaneously ensuring that the LP flows cohesively.
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UncutJan 23, 2019Apart from the odd off-kilter minor key melody, they sound anything but bereft as Bagg's dreamy soprano, layers of melodic synths and soaring strings cast a dramatically romantic sheen over their pain. [Feb 2019, p.30]
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MojoJan 23, 2019An electro-edged nerviness also surfaces but, overall, the fresh stylistic excursions result in an album which, fittingly considering its backstory, does not quite hang together. [Feb 2019, p.91]
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