Push The Heart - Devics
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. All in all, Push The Heart is an admirable, sometimes striking record from a band with a few of those now in their catalog.
  2. Push The Heart is easily the most developed batch of songs from the group, easing through ten assured tracks of soft orchestral pop.
  3. 70
    Inhabiting the same last-dance ballroom as Portishead's noir torch songs, this monument to ennui is prettily impressive. [Mar 2006, p.90]
  4. One gets the sense that this is an album recorded with white gloves, and the calculation behind the tunes is nearly tangible.
  5. Push the Heart sounds like a transition. The band proved that they could be jangly and fierce, and then they proved that they could make an album that hung together, and with Push they're hinting that they can do both.
  6. It's a consistently engaging combination. [18 Feb 2006, p.35]
  7. 60
    An imposing, sometimes melodramatic affair. [Mar 2006, p.94]
  8. The Devics' music is chamber pop at its most lush and dreamy.
  9. Whilte thoughtfully put together, Push The Heart is hardly a venture into uncharted territory. [Apr 2006, p.119]
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. TiagoM
    9
    Surprisingly good!
  2. PaoloM
    8
    Beautiful album, especially "come up" and "salty seas". Not all songs are that wonderful, but the singing is magnificent everywhere.
  3. jacobf
    10
    Beautiful, elegant music from some neighborhood in LA that isn't really on the map.