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Sep 30, 2011Ultimately, Grouplove's Never Trust a Happy Song is a cohesive if ramshackle crowd-pleaser, full of melodic double-lead vocals, handclaps, ringing electric guitars, and staccato synth parts that tips a hat to '80s dance-rock while still retaining the band's obvious love of experimental '60s folk-rock.
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Alternative PressSep 13, 2011Hopelessly happy, Grouplove should be required listening in seemingly hopeless times. [Oct 2011, p.107]
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Sep 8, 2011Never Trust a Happy Song is far from a cohesive album, but that actually works to its advantage--because it encapsulates the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows, of this emotional rollercoaster known as life.
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Q MagazineSep 21, 2011L.A.-based quintet unleash positively euphoric debut. [Oct 2011, p.120]
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Sep 13, 2011Transpose the communal exuberance of Los Campesinos! to the U.S. and you've got this quintet, who prove that sunny, adolescent, pop-rock catchiness will never go out of style.
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Dec 11, 2021