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Mar 3, 2014Tomorrow’s Hits doesn’t boom like The Men’s early material (namely, 2010’s Immaculada and 2011’s Leave Home), but it’s more rousing instrumentally than last year’s New Moon.
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UncutMar 7, 2014This is a tremendously assured album, beautifully paced and full of great rockers. [Apr 2014, p.77]
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Feb 26, 2014It’s a record full of brilliant playing, solid gold songs and most importantly it feels like an honest assessment of where The Men are right now as a band and as individuals.
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Feb 28, 2014Tomorrow’s Hits, is almost unfairly possessive of a foretelling title, seeing as how vanilla some of the songs can come off sounding. The record, however, is an accurate chronology of a working band’s prolific devotion to feeding the muse.
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Mar 7, 2014It may not be groundbreaking or shocking, but it’s quite a good record nonetheless.
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Mar 5, 2014Though there aren't any clunkers, Tomorrow's Hits peaks when it achieves maximum speed and strives for the ecstatic repetition of eye-rolling, body-transcending gospel music.
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Mar 3, 2014The album is a well-written love letter to yesterday's rock & roll. Though this means the album's sound isn't nearly as revelatory as the sonic assaults of their earlier work, the Men continue to prove that, above all, they're a band that know what they're doing, even if they don't know what they're doing next.
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Feb 28, 2014Tomorrow's Hits sees the band honing the sound of last year's New Moon into a tight collection of pop-minded rock songs.
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Feb 27, 2014We keep hearing about the death of rock ’n’ roll supplanted by some fleeting, trendy sub-genre; but with more confidence than ever, these dudes remind us just how powerful the pure stuff can be.
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Feb 26, 2014The real genius of Tomorrow’s Hits is its shaking off not just fan expectations but the almighty shackles of credibility, innovation and, for want of a subtler term, corporate buzz-band etiquette.
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Feb 26, 2014The Men have clearly reached the level where they can turn their hand to anything and, once again, it has worked a treat.
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Mar 4, 2014The Men have always had the chops to hang, but it’s their emerging maturity that has begun to justify the bravado of the name.
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Mar 4, 2014A few more thorny elements--noisy vestiges of The Men circa the distant past of 2010--would have made for a livelier listen. But at its best, Tomorrow’s Hits nails the new-traditionalist sweet spot.
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Mar 3, 2014The benefit for The Men playing this sort of music is that where they’re nicking from grows less important--so long as they keep pulling it off. Pull it off they do in spades for the third straight record, save for the fact The Men have yet to figure out how to make their ballads as compelling as their high-octane songs.
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Mar 4, 2014Who knows if the Men would be energized or completely lost if they took more time next time out, but Tomorrow’s Hits for now mostly succeeds in toeing the line between being on a roll and being in a rut.
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Mar 12, 2014Those who love the group for their approach to melodicism and big hooks will find a lot to love about Tomorrow’s Hits, but those who still long for the group’s noisier days will only be further repelled and forced to stick with their first two albums.
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Mar 10, 2014These are exceptional bar-band songs, sure, but they’re still bar band songs. Where Tomorrow’s Hits suffers, though, is in its wholesale familiarity.
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Mar 10, 2014Tomorrow's Hits is an easy album to admire--this is The Men stretching out and aiming for new targets--but a difficult one to fall in love with.
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Alternative PressMar 5, 2014The majority of the tracks on Tomorrow's Hits feel like they were cooked in the backyards of Laurel Canyon with ambling rhythms, the lilt of lap steel guitar and an air of stoned desperation lingering over it all like smog. [Apr 2014, p.92]
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Mar 5, 2014They’ve finally made an album that’s comparable to their insane shows. Tomorrow’s Hits will run you ragged and you’ll love every second of this mad ride.
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Mar 3, 2014Tomorrow’s Hits carries on the classic rock torch, for better or worse.
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014Settle Me Down is an elegantly executed ballad and Dark Waltz evokes Creedence Clearwater Revival at their finest, but the unspectacular Another Night gets bogged down in sub-Springsteen-isms. [May 2014, p.115]
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Mar 5, 2014There’s still a solid core to Tomorrow’s Hits, one that cleans up the band’s talents and puts them on display in innovative songs. Unfortunately, for every look forward on Tomorrow’s Hits, there’s another one still stuck in the past.
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Mar 4, 2014It may not be triple-album time for these guys yet, but they're working toward it.
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Mar 3, 2014It all might sound like a terminal case of record-collector rock, but there's a charm and ramshackleness at work here that carry these old ideas with ragged verve.
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Feb 26, 2014It's Springsteen, it's 70s soft-rock, it's sun-soaked Californian road trips.
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Feb 26, 2014It makes for a focused, solid offering.
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Under The RadarFeb 26, 2014Tame by their own high standards of disorder, this record's roomier, rootsier approach lands The Men at the left of the dial. [Feb/Mar 2014, p.73]
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MagnetMar 12, 2014An eight-song album that flounders too much in mid-tempo purgatory. [No. 107, p.55]
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Mar 6, 2014On Tomorrow’s Hits, we place our hands against the walls, we feel the familiar texture of recording studio foam, we lift ourselves up gently only to drop back down to the ground, actions of a bored child.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 22
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Mixed: 3 out of 22
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Negative: 2 out of 22
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