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Dec 9, 2011There's a lot going on, but Hotel Shampoo never seems cluttered. It flows easily, so easily that it becomes an album to get lost in.
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Feb 10, 2011Rhys is the ex-Britpopper making music that doesn't sound like dreary London fog - and as any New Englander reeling from a long hard winter's ass kick will tell you, that's an advantageous distinction.
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Jun 6, 2011Rhys has weightier material in his body of work, but for sheer pop pleasure this album can't be beat.
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Mar 21, 2011Hotel Shampoo is terrific, neatly channeling all of Rhys's wonderful eccentricities into an intelligent pop record.
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Q MagazineMar 1, 2011Super Furry Animal ditches band and experimentation for the simple life. [March 2011, p. 114]
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Feb 24, 2011The simpler arrangements allow more room for Rhys's sleek harmonies to drive his whimsical wordplay: accordingly, the album has the lush, beguiling charm of a sun-kissed soft-rock album by The Beach Boys or The Young Rascals.
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Feb 15, 2011Subjects resulting from such reveries include imperialism, the environment and the more familiar home turf of love and longing. Nobody does it better.
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Feb 14, 2011Hotel Shampoo shows off a simpler, stripped back Rhys - whose lyrics are placed front and centre of beautifully arranged tracks, each imbued with an infectious energy.
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Feb 14, 2011Super Furry Animals frontman's third solo LP captures his creative wanderlust.
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Feb 23, 2011Hotel Shampoo manages to strike the right balance between Rhys' desire to indulge odd whims, lyrical humor, outright pop, and heartfelt sentiment. More importantly, he always makes it sound effortless.
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May 23, 2011This is Rhys wholly in his wheelhouse: offering up a handful of standalone highlights and clever deep cuts, hitting pleasure centers along the way, and quietly adding to a catalogue as deceptively substantial as anyone currently working the pop circuit with fifteen years behind and at least another fifteen ahead.
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May 3, 2011It's unexpected, beautiful, weird, and satisfying all at the same time.
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Apr 19, 2011Whether driving a military tank through Glastonbury or recording a synth-pop tribute to playboy '80s auto mogul John Delorean, Super Furry Animals' frontman makes the gimmicky sublime.
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Feb 9, 2011From start to finish, the melodies are sweeter than sugar, the music bright and sparkling, with Rhys' charming falsetto resting on top.