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Jul 28, 2014Weird Little Birthday is one of those albums that sounds like nothing much the first couple times you hear it, before you begin to lock onto the war between musical ease and lyrical dislocation.
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Jul 8, 2014Weird Little Birthday is a superb debut, beautifully recorded, with everything in its right place.
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Q MagazineJun 16, 2014It's difficult not to warm to any record that quotes Prefab Sprout's Cars And Girls in one breath and uses the word "phlebotomist" in the next. [Jul 2014, p.109]
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UncutJun 16, 2014Deft lyrical touches and a persuasive commitment nonetheless lift Happyness well above pastiche. [Jul 2014, p.74]
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Jun 16, 2014Ultra-lo-fi, but an album nonetheless stuffed full of rich melodies and arch lyrical observations.
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Jun 16, 2014Happyness switch effortlessly between fuzzy pop and downcast, desolate ballads, alternately thrilling and charming.
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Sep 2, 2014While it initially comes off as ragged, lo-fi, and maybe even a bit haphazard, Weird Little Birthday is more enduring than its casualness and wry intimacy might initially suggest.
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Jun 16, 2014Their eponymous EP was pretty great--and are showing on Weird Little Birthday that that’s not all hot air.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Apr 3, 2015