We Love The City
- Hefner
- Band Name: Hefner
- Record Label: Too Pure / Beggars Banquet
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2001
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90Once again, Hefner has delivered what is sure to be one of the most original releases of the year.
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80A seedily romantic, kitchen-sink paean to London, We Love The City finds Hefner's previously wan guitar stylings given a coat of production lustre.
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80Admittedly, this is bedroom indie, but it's bedroom indie with strong production and songs that are always self-deprecating enough to not be self-pitying.
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80The songs remain wonderfully the same - simple guitar lines seething like itchy scabs, scathing lyrics scribbled with trembling, coffee stained hands, memories of kissing with nicotine lips.
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70It's hard to envisage anything this parochial moving beyond cult status.
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70Hefner are at their best when they stick to their primary theme, which is love that's been confused, bruised and downright disappointed.
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Their passion for hating Margaret Thatcher, the royal family, and the tyrannical moves by Parliament is a common theme comically twisted throughout the dozen track set list on We Love the City.
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52Sorry, this is decent pub-rock, but there are 1,000 albums released every day. Buy another one.
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50Attention to detail particularly benefits the lush and endearing "Good Fruit," the rare track wherein lovelorn earnestness replaces self-conscious repartee.
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ami10Most phenomenal of all their albums - I can't stop listening
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KarlP9This is certainly not pub rock!! its beautiful, its witty and i love it!