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Universal acclaim- based on 20 Ratings
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Positive: 15 out of 20
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Mixed: 5 out of 20
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BenSMar 21, 2007
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MitchMSep 5, 2006A fun ride the whole way through. Better than Ugly.
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KennyMSep 5, 2006The most lyrically and musically progressive album that has come out in a long time...even if you don't dig the direction cursive has gone in since the ugly organ, you must agree this album is epic, well-written, and important to the advancement of alternative rock...and it has some bitchin' horns.
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JohnNSep 1, 2006Powerful and writhing. An interesting and necessary idealogical attack on America's heartland. Still, I miss Greta's haunting strings.
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DrunkenMasterSep 1, 2006Poor Tim Kasher -- no one feels pain like he does. Overwrought, melodramatic and terribly self indulgent. Grow up.
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JeremyAug 27, 2006
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LancyAug 26, 2006
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AndyAug 25, 2006By any other band, this album would be incredible. However, Happy Hollow just doesn't match the perfection of their three previous full lenghts; Storms of Early Summer, Domestica, and Ugly Organ. The music is great but there is a slight fall-off in the lyrical content; the political views set forth I completely agree with, but the execution is a little weak on certain songs.
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DanAug 23, 2006
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CodyKillerAug 23, 2006When i first read that they added a horn section I shuttered. I then actually go the album threw it on and was amazed on how well the horns were used. I feel the album is stronger that Ugly Organ, and is a great step for them.
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mikes.Aug 23, 2006
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EthanAug 22, 2006The first few times i listened i thought the cd was okay but it got better every time i listened. Into the fold is one of the best cursive songs yet/
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chrissAug 22, 2006starts off strong (a la The Ugly Organ but not quite Domestica) but halfway through you begin to wonder what the hell Tim Kasher and co. were thinking when they decided to add horns. The musical arrangement is completely haphazard and is not too pleasing to the ears. Put down the bottle Tim and write some better music!
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DrewBAug 21, 2006under the radar said it best, some bitchin
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Filter[Kasher's] storytelling is still right up there with the very highest of Saddle-sitters. [#21, p.97]
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BlenderMusically, his furiously gear-shifting punk-pop, full of horn blasts and arty production tricks... never fails to rock the sermon. [Aug 2006, p.107]
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The painful punning of Bad Sects is just one of the many cringeworthy moments on an album that sees grown men wallowing in a teenage wasteland from which they really should have moved on.