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Aug 14, 2014Album 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.
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Jul 29, 2014There 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.
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Jul 29, 2014The 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.
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Jul 29, 2014Racy is big, it’s bold, and positions its creators closer to "pop", only to reveal them as a pop band by context rather than nature.
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Q MagazineOct 3, 2014There is kitsch charm throughout. [Nov 2014, p.112]
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Jul 29, 2014Intrepid it ain’t, but sometimes the straightforward approach has its rewards.
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Aug 4, 2014This 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.
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Sep 29, 2014The 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.