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- Artist(s): Rory McClure, Andrew Dergousoff, Brent Sasaki
- Summary: The debut album for the Canadian indie-pop trio was influenced by music from the 1950s and '60s.
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- Record Label: Hardly Art
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Pop, Noise Pop
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UncutOct 18, 2011They've really only got one trick. But it's a treat, all the same. [Oct 2011, p.98]
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Oct 5, 2011Violent Hearts is a resoundingly successful debut that puts the band right at the front of the line of all the reverb-heavy, backward-looking indie pop bands that overran the music scene like seagulls on the beach at low tide in the early part of the decade.
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Oct 5, 2011As a full-length listening experience, Violent Hearts is a little much-- it runs just under a lean half-hour, but the relative lack of stylistic breadth covered makes a front-to-back spin feel longer.
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Oct 5, 2011Ultimately, Hearts is an adolescent album in every conceivable sense.
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Oct 5, 2011Yes, it's enormously derivative, but it's also frequently exhilarating.
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Nov 15, 2011If the record has a drawback, it's the consistency of sound that runs from song to song.
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Oct 5, 2011The vocals are obscured, but nothing else really meshes.