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MagnetApr 15, 2016With Hitch, the Joy Formidable has expanded its sonic palette and subsequently zeroed in on its ultimate sound. [No. 130, p.57]
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Mar 29, 2016Hitch is a startling achievement of creativity. It doesn’t reinvent The Joy Formidable wheel but it refines everything they’ve done until this point and presents their most complete package yet.
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Mar 25, 2016If the songwriting on Hitch is, to coin an old music hack turn-of-phrase, ‘mature’, it’s also concise--in a good way.
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Kerrang!Mar 23, 2016The Joy Formidable still roar. In fact, on Hitch, they sound more like themselves than ever before. [26 Mar 2016, p.52]
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Mar 25, 2016Working in a variety of moods and styles, The Joy Formidable proves with Hitch that it doesn’t need an overkill of energy to excite.
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Apr 11, 2016While Hitch may kick off poorly, it more than makes up for it by back-ending the tracklist with some of the band's best work.
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Mar 25, 2016Hitch doesn't really deviate, at least sonically, from the template. Where it does separate itself from the two prior outings is in its lyrical themes.
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Alternative PressMar 23, 2016Thanks in part to Alan Moulder's always-nuanced mix, Hitch balances the band's bombast with restraint. [Apr 2016, p.102]
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Mar 23, 2016While both the maudlin pop diversions and studio experiments are palatable enough, the band remains strongest at its most strident, pounding out massive choruses in an ocean of churning guitars, adorning them with syncopation or weird time interplay, and just going for it. Thankfully, that still represents half the menu.
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Mar 23, 2016Hitch finds them not just following their best and worst tendencies, but beating the listener over the head with them. It’s not the worst way to spend an hour; you just might want to carve out some time for a nap afterwards.
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Mar 23, 2016At times it almost sounds as if they know they've taken their current sound as far as it can go and seem palpably frustrated they can't figure out their next move.
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May 13, 2016While frontwoman Ritzy Bryan remains a force of nature, there’s a lack of eureka moments this time, leaving us with a slow-burner rather than an inferno.
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Q MagazineApr 8, 2016Five years in, they've still to learn that less can sometimes be more. [Jun 2016, p.112]
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Mar 24, 2016Tthe Joy Formidable are at their best when they switch off their default setting.
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Jan 31, 2017