Ballad of a Tryhard
by Scott Hardware
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

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  1. Uncut
    May 20, 2022
    70
    Closer "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]
  2. AllMusic
    May 20, 2022
    80
    The album is warmer, friendlier, and fuller than anything Hardware has presented before, yet somehow just as emotionally naked.
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  3. Exclaim
    May 20, 2022
    80
    Ballad 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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