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Such Fun might fill that space over the fireplace, but it doesn't really pull the room together.
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Alternative Press'Always Do' is the pinnacle of this record's minimal momentum; it's a leisurely stroll past the mediocrity of te album's second half (with the exception of the bluesy cadence 'Hair Don't Grow'). [Nov 2008, p.151]
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Such Fun in too small doses.
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This North Carolina-based sextet's major-label debut is as rich and diverse as 2006's "Be He Me," unfolding with layers of piano and string flourishes, crunching guitar jams and vibrant pop melodies.
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While it has several nice moments of sprawling countryfolk fervor, a more accurate title for Such Fun might have been Not Bad.
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On Such Fun, Annuals--led by songwriter Adam Baker--employed sensitive elements of country and western (see: “Down the Mountain”), balladry (“Springtime”) and chamber music (“Blue Ridge”), but nearly all resulted in full-spectrum climaxes, with many instruments employed dramatically.
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The band retains an experimental edge, but it’s all-too-often now embodied in clinical genre-hopping, meaning that for all its ostensible claims, Such Fun just isn’t as fun as it should be.
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Such Fun is the type of record Annuals were always going to make: a slick opus, epic both in sound and messiness, that just never comes together.
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The band's sunny and melodic exuberance ensures that Such Fun is, above all else, a lot of fun.
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Their bright Americana ditties have a newly retro, country-fried twist that suits them just swell. [Nov 2008, p.88]
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Such Fun continues Annuals' knack for taking the hollow sounds of The Cure and The Walkmen and filling it in with cheery exuberance.
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Under The RadarGenre flirtations aside, this is one of the better pop albums of the year. [Fall 2008, p.74]