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  • Summary: The second album for the Australian electro pop band includes tropical music elements.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Jul 24, 2012
    75
    Idea of Happiness never tries to re-imagine the concept of the summer album or, at the very least, the genre of synthpop.
  2. Jul 24, 2012
    70
    This album is dizzyingly uplifting, as camp as a weekend at Butlins and effortlessly iridescent.
  3. Jul 18, 2012
    61
    Guitars, synths, and beats all sound crisp and glisten with a layer of cold condensation, but they come together in ways that don't necessarily make for memorable pop tunes.
  4. Jul 24, 2012
    60
    The vibe is almost complete but not quite, and it's puzzling.
  5. Q Magazine
    Nov 28, 2012
    60
    There's certainly enough thrills to go round, even if Idea Of Happiness is sometimes lacking the killer chorus that would take it to the next level. [Dec 2012, p.115]