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- Summary: The third full-length release for the Toronto-based indie artist Scott Hardware features contributions from Dan Lee, Jonathan Pappo, Robyn Phillips, and Caitlyn Woelfle-O'Brien.
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- Record Label: Telephone Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Ambient Pop
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May 20, 2022The album is warmer, friendlier, and fuller than anything Hardware has presented before, yet somehow just as emotionally naked.
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May 20, 2022Ballad takes Hardware's craft to new heights of sophistication and richness, establishing him as a master of melody, an exquisite popsmith, and a brilliant compositional mind.
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May 20, 2022Ballad of a Tryhard is a relatively straightforward collection of orchestral pop, bursting with hooks. Like the heartfelt folk songs of Amen Dunes’ Love, it is a grand step towards traditional songcraft.
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UncutMay 20, 2022Closer "Underdog", a stripped-back self-portrait of a striver still "trying hard [to] leave a mark", provides an intimate coda to Harwood's depiction of his teeming inner world, a hermetically sealed ocean of emotion. [Jul 2022, p.27]