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Supergrass come crashing back to life with Diamond Hoo Ha, an album every bit as cheerfully gaudy and vulgar as its title.
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Supergrass has gone from energetic, young and roughshod to energetic, veteran and polished.
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This is grown-up rock, with an adult swagger, from one of today's most gifted songwriting bands.
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Regardless of lyrical legitimacy, the sentiment is captivating, but across the album as a whole this substance is fleeting, and is what fans will be missing the most.
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Overall, it’s a brash, shiny, confident record, careering along on a second wind, or as one jaunty number puts it, “the return of inspiration.”
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Diamond Hoo Ha does seem like an apt description of the glittery nonsense contained within.
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Diamond Hoo Ha is a city record through and through: fuzzy and raucous, lit up with neon guitars and drums as crowded as a main urban artery, seedy in thrill and immaculately clean in design.
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Supergrass sounds loose and inspired throughout.
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Diamond Hoo Ha can sometimes sound like an anthology. But there’s still a boisterous band under all the borrowings, and loosening up and stretching its identity have just made Supergrass snappier and rowdier.
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Apply megawatt tunes and career-best performances and you’ve got an album to top even 2002’s criminally neglected "Life On Other Planets."
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Under The RadarAll indications on Diamond Hoo Ha point to this being just the change Supergrass needed. [Spring 2008, p.81]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 18
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Mixed: 3 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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AndrewA.Jun 12, 2008
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ThomaB.May 1, 2008Awesome, although there are many songs I do not like.
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MichaelS.May 1, 2008Great album, better than Road to Rouen which I liked too. One tip though - give it more than one listen!