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Sep 15, 2022Although sonically the production can feel repetitive – especially towards the album’s middle – what ultimately anchors this project is the lyricism. He manages to explore his experience as a gay man and all its accompanying troubles and triumphs, yet also frame them in the universal understandings of heartbreak and alienation.
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Sep 14, 2022Hideous is able to straddle the line between a celebration of sexuality, whilst going beyond themes purely of self-love and physical exaltation that have come to dominate feel-good pop music in recent years.
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Sep 13, 2022At times, you do miss Romy providing the balance to Sim’s vocals, but this is, in its own way, as successful an xx side-project as the In Colour album has been. As an antidote to the long wait until the next album by the full band, this is a must listen.
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Sep 13, 2022As is typical in periods of self-discovery, Hideous Bastard is rife with growing pains. But surrounded by a trusted community, and in a few sparing moments of clarity, it hints at real beauty.
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Sep 9, 2022It sways and bops somewhere in the middle, resulting in a richly conceptualized LP that delivers on Sim’s enterprise into soulful pop even while it comes short of solidifying an aesthetic that suitably breaks him apart from the pack.
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Sep 9, 2022Hideous Creature doesn’t possess the same pop immediacy of Sim’s day job, but it does feel like a record that needed to be made: vital and beautiful.
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Sep 8, 2022The results are beautiful, moving and – regardless of subject matter – brilliantly inventive.
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Sep 7, 2022‘Hideous Bastard’ sees Oliver take on both these past and present realities with a candour that surprises even him.
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MojoSep 6, 2022Sim's painful journey also feels like catharsis, and packs a vivid statement of musical intent. [Oct 2022, p.87]
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Sep 6, 2022“Run the Credits” rejects the notion that life fits into a neat, three-act narrative, and Hideous Bastard serves as a frank, compelling chapter in Sim’s.
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Sep 6, 2022This adds welcome colour to the xx cinematic universe, but it’s no blockbuster.
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UncutSep 6, 2022The xx duo eagerly depart from the templates that have served their band so well, thereby imparting Hideous Bastard with a spontaneity that complements the courage and candour in the lyrics. [Oct 2022, p.34]
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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Sep 17, 2022Não gostei. Achei Ruim demais, não supriu com minhas expectativas, é a minha opinião galera!!!!
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Sep 17, 2022I don’t know how the album hasn’t received all round 5 stars. Such an important record, so beautiful and meaningful. The man is a silent icon
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Sep 14, 2022This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.