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Feb 10, 2017Moments of personal darkness are threaded throughout Hard Love, but the clarity and strength that Showalter finds when he shrugs off the gloom gives the songs a restless optimism tempered with a belief that the sun will always come up no matter how long your night has been.
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Mar 1, 2017Hard Love delivers frontman Tim Showalter's hard stuff in exponents. Add this depth of relay onto Showalter's loaded visions, and it sounds as if the universe itself is groaning. We are out of our seats for this one.
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Feb 21, 2017All this noise stays in service of the songs, which remain as self-reflective and personal as ever.
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MixmagFeb 14, 2017Hard Love is easy to adore. [No. 139, p.61]
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Mar 3, 2017New album Hard Love is altogether more bullish, Showalter unleashing his inner rock beast on a collection of songs that seem to reach for some kind of epiphany through sheer volume.
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Feb 16, 2017Showalter and producer Nicolas Vernhes find a nice balance between the rawness of the production and the meatiness of its execution, and allow the classic rock underpinnings that were so prevalent on Heal to continue to rise to the forefront.
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Feb 16, 2017Hard Love is overstuffed and perhaps a bit overambitious, but repeated listening will reap ample rewards.
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Feb 15, 2017Written by a person whose conscience seems to keep him from having too much fun, Hard Love is a conflicted yet summarily good record that breathes new life into good ol' rock'n'roll.
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UncutFeb 10, 2017An odd mix, maybe, but a believable one. [Mar 2017, p.31]
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Feb 15, 2017Even though the record is layered in angst, Showalter has an inner fearlessness that has allowed him to take accountability for his actions. While Hard Love isn’t a clear solution for Showalter’s problems, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
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Feb 23, 2017It’s a perfectly fine album by a guy who wants to be much more than perfectly fine.
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Feb 15, 2017It’s a solipsistic affair: and while his good intentions to smarten up his drug-sozzled, road-weary life may be commendable, they don’t necessarily make “Quit It” any more agreeable.
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Feb 10, 2017A piledriver of a set, but it pulls you into his world.
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Q MagazineFeb 10, 2017Too much of the rest comes dangerously close to ordinariness. [Mar 2017, p.115]
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Feb 17, 2017
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Feb 23, 2017