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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for Edinburgh-based trio Young Fathers was written and recorded over three years.
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- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Feb 3, 2023‘Heavy Heavy’ is a passionate, soulful and often mesmerising work that will stick around long past the first listen. Succinct and underpinned by a catchy melodic structure, it continues Young Fathers’ peerless run of singular albums and further cements them as one of the more unique acts to exist today.
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Jan 30, 2023Heavy Heavy is rarely an easy listen, but it's never less than engrossing.
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Feb 7, 2023Young Fathers don't owe us anything except themselves, which Heavy Heavy feels like a true and warmly sincere extension of, a hand extended from the light across the dark, if we're willing to let go and take it.
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Jan 31, 2023Heavy Heavy may be a little too sweet for long-time listeners, but its massive choruses, strong hooks and ecstatic sound too timely and too powerful to deny.
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Feb 16, 2023Heavy Heavy pulls in the listener with an empathetic lust for life that, whether brimming with optimism, steeling for a threat to survival, or reckoning with a perceived futility of existence, somehow never wavers.
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Feb 3, 2023‘Heavy Heavy’ sees them fully marry their two sides; is this a very fun album from a very serious band, or a very serious album from a very fun band? Why not both? Young Fathers can have it both ways.
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Feb 7, 2023Heavy Heavy sweeps its listener along, churchlike, and conveys the feeling that resisting the urge will always feel worse than rising up and pushing the air from your lungs. And then, after a brief 10 tracks, it’s all over—as if the procession has marched on, out of earshot. But the invite is still there extended: It’s up to you whether to accept it or not.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Feb 3, 2023Solid output from a solid band. Powerful, danceable and fun. Best of 2023, so far.
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Feb 6, 2023
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May 8, 2023
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Feb 3, 2023
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Feb 3, 2023Great instrumentation! Catchy songs. The lyrics could be more insightful, but overall very varied track list.
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Feb 3, 2023Bland and overproduced compared to their older work with less interesting lyrics, very disappointing.
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