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Keys
You know it's me at the door Before you answer. You know it's me from the creek in the floor Before you answer. Everything I've planned for you and... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Aug 14, 2014
    75
    Album highlight "Last, First" builds to an enormous guitar solo that's deceptively simple. It's a moment that's representative of the melodic and structural quality of Racy, and it establishes Hooray For Earth as an increasingly reliable source of straightforward, catchy songcraft.
  2. Jul 29, 2014
    70
    The members of Hooray for Earth are locked in with each other and offer up a riskier, more mind-expanding take on their formerly polite sound.
  3. Jul 29, 2014
    70
    There is little emotional resolution in Heroux's songs, but the disruptive grandeur in "Keys" and "Last, First"--crisp, electronic sequencing scarred with scouring power chords and soprano-drone guitar--is pitch-perfect.
  4. 60
    Intrepid it ain’t, but sometimes the straightforward approach has its rewards.
  5. Q Magazine
    Oct 3, 2014
    60
    There is kitsch charm throughout. [Nov 2014, p.112]
  6. Aug 4, 2014
    58
    This makes for an uneven listening experience and detracts from the sharply conceived and executed songs. Three years is a long time to wait for such unbalanced output.
  7. 55
    The LP is constructed, played and sung with acute skill, but all done without a hint of pizzazz, little colour, vibrancy or peculiarities--it's all a lackadaisical tumble of synth and guitar.

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