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UncutSep 19, 2017Hallelujah Anyhow may have been recorded swiftly, but the abandonment is still exquisitely detailed, as every listen to "Domino" reveal further nuance beneath the swagger. [Oct 2017, p.22]
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Sep 28, 2017On Hallelujah Anyhow, he sounds more comfortable than ever before, and that’s saying something. Taylor’s songs are warm and well-worn. His band moves as a single organism. ... Musically, Hallelujah Anyhow is a beautiful patchwork of styles.
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Sep 19, 2017The result is an album that's uplifting without stumbling into the saccharine-dosed forced jolliness that particular word might bring to mind.
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Sep 19, 2017Unsurprisingly, the stellar Hallelujah Anyhow often feels like a restless fever dream.
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Oct 30, 2017Hallelujah Anyhow is the group’s third. And it’s a neatly balanced work: intimate in certain moments and larger in scale at others. What makes this album work, ultimately, and what makes much of Hiss Golden Messenger’s music work on a larger scale, is the use of implicit contradictions that run through it.
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Oct 12, 2017Songs that are just truly comforting to their core and that make Hallelujah Anyhow another richly rewarding listen.
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Q MagazineSep 27, 2017Hallelujah Anyhow is the sound of a man happy in his own skin. [Nov 2017, p.108]
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Sep 25, 2017Every song possesses passion and gravitas, making Hallelujah Anyhow a spiritual descendant of Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece.
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Sep 21, 2017Hallelujah Anyhow is another outstanding exercise in record making from Hiss Golden Messenger, and it's recommended to loyal fans and curious neophytes alike.
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Sep 21, 2017The allusions thrum just beneath the surface of these vivid songs, as if to suggest that specific moments of music can get us through hard times or even just move us a little further down the road.
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Under The RadarDec 11, 2017Another strong record from one of the hardest working songwriters in the business. [Oct-Dec 2017, p.84]
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Sep 27, 2017As long as life carries on and the darkness exists, the world needs messengers of hope. Hiss Golden Messenger deliver that here on Hallelujah Anyhow, making it relevant regardless of time and place.
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MojoSep 27, 2017Hallelujah Anyhow needs a shade more definition to cut through the reassuring vintage fug. [Nov 2017, p.94]
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Sep 25, 2017It’s all quite pleasant, nicely played and sung and recorded, but perhaps a little distant. These tunes flow by like sunny afternoons and when they’re done you can’t remember much.
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Sep 19, 2017His words and sentiments are left deliberately smudged and indefinite in places; sardonic Dylan phrasing sticks to some words, double-tracked Lennon wails on others.