Happiness
by Hurts
  • Record Label: RCA
  • Release Date: Sep 6, 2010
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 53 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 57
  3. Negative: 1 out of 57

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  1. Fuerstenberg
    Feb 13, 2022
    6
    Almost twelve years later, no album sounds more like 2010 pop than Hurts' debut album "Happiness", which is all about loss and love. Unfortunately, only a few songs are delicately crafted. Overall, the music is too thin and sparse as well as lacking thematic depth and versatility.

    "Happiness" is carried by "Wonderful Life", "Better Than Love" and "Stay", since the rest of the songs are    Almost twelve years later, no album sounds more like 2010 pop than Hurts' debut album "Happiness", which is all about loss and love. Unfortunately, only a few songs are delicately crafted. Overall, the music is too thin and sparse as well as lacking thematic depth and versatility.

    "Happiness" is carried by "Wonderful Life", "Better Than Love" and "Stay", since the rest of the songs are just not consistent enough and are overshadowed by the aforementioned. All in all, the amount of synth sounds wants to be more epochal, monumental and defining than it really is.

    My favorites:
    "Wonderful Life"
    "Better Than Love"
    "Stay"

    ~ Fürstenberg
    February 13, 2022    … Expand

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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. BBC Music
    60
    Style and gravitas are all very well--if Hurts could also have been consistent with the substance, Happiness would have trounced its 80s counterparts and many of its contemporaries, too.
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  2. Clash Music
    40
    Unfortunately, the album barely reaches the most reasonable of expectations. The strength of their flawless magnum opus, 'Better Than Love', overshadows every other song on the LP.
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  3. Drowned In Sound
    50
    Happiness promises the rough edges and absurdity of one era's pop, but for the most part gives the mum-friendliness of the next. Hurts would surely be better if they committed to one or the other.
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