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Sep 8, 2015Musically, Good Sad Happy Bad is both challenging and engrossing.
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Sep 18, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad is ultimately an optimistic record; it tries to bring out the positive in some of the most negative sounds around.
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Sep 15, 2015With their uncanny knack of still sounding like very few other bands before or since their early stirrings, faith in letting the "moment" loose has once more revealed Levi, Pell and Khan to be a strange and sorcerous triptych unto themselves.
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Sep 14, 2015Her combination of interior logic and the immediacy of improvisation is also captivating. This is deceptive, singular and highly creative music.
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Sep 4, 2015Beneath those perverted pop bounces, though, are some sadder, softer moments, and a reminder that Levi doesn’t just need discordant noise to twist your insides.
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MojoAug 26, 2015This fourth album takes then back to the headlong kitchen-sink pop of their excellent 2009 debut Jewellery. [Oct 2015, p.95]
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UncutAug 26, 2015Levi's penchant for cracked-up nursery-rhyme melodies and wry humour elevate what might've been an exercise in wilful primitivism. [Oct 2015, p.80]
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Sep 29, 2015It’s odd, yes, and quite, quite daft, but executed with some real charm.
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Sep 14, 2015Even if this isn't their easiest or most satisfying listening, they're still a remarkably unique band.
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Under The RadarAug 26, 2015Sure, it scream "art project," but that's besides the point. [Aug-Sep 2015, p.65]
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Sep 24, 2015Although Good Sad Happy Bad is certainly the band’s least polished-sounding record, the combination of the scattered arrangements and Levi’s ruminations on sadness shrewdly underline the topsy-turvy feeling suggested by the title. Even with the band’s music messily chopped, looped, and jangled, the emotional messages always ring clear.
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Sep 8, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad is a collection of intriguing sketches that might have been developed into a record; instead, they’re left to suffer in demo-like ambiguity.