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  • Summary: The fifth full-length release for the Canadian singer-songwriter Afie Jurvanen as Bahamas was produced by Robbie Lackritz.
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  • Record Label: Republic
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Oct 9, 2020
    80
    A wealth of songs that are as engaging as they are enjoyable.
  2. Oct 9, 2020
    80
    With Sad Hunk, Jurvanen has crafted an album about reaching the age where you don't care about being cool anymore, yet he somehow manages to find ever more nuanced and inspired levels of cool musical insight in the process.
  3. Oct 9, 2020
    70
    Sad Hunk captures the band's lively chemistry, proving that five albums in, Jurvanen and company are still finding ways to make "something new for all of you with some old refrain."
  4. Uncut
    Oct 16, 2020
    70
    Songs about divorce, disillusionment and middle-aged spread combine vintage singer-songwriter styles with languidly funky scribbles of guitar. [Dec 2020, p.27]
  5. 70
    It’s a supple set of songs that’s as engaging as it is agreeable.
  6. Mojo
    Oct 9, 2020
    60
    There's a Paul Simon acuity to Up With The Jones, a look at living beyond your means, going bust and being free. Wisdom Of The World steps right out of line, a feedbacky Hendrix-style howl that resolves into mellow catharsis. [Nov 2020, p.89]
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Jan 15, 2021
    9
    Another very solid album from Bahamas. It's more of the same but somehow just different enough to be fresh and catchy.