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MojoFeb 2, 2015Hayes's new-found prolificacy certainly hasn't exhausted his gift for timeless pop. [Feb 2015, p.91]
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Jan 12, 2015All in all, Slurrup is a smile-inducing reminder that it's too easy to pigeonhole him as just a master craftsman--and that Hayes' pop is arguably even more potent when it's not quite as elaborate.
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Jan 12, 2015Here, short sharp songs such as Get It Right could be about love or the perfectionist’s creative process; likewise Fokus, another deliriously pacey romp.
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Jan 20, 2015Slurrup is the unmistakable product of Hayes’ peculiar personality, infusing songs that feel like lost '70s classics with dispiriting images of stardom unattained.
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Jan 20, 2015He certainly manages to squeeze a lot of words in to this mercilessly concise album. Sometimes the results are touching, sometimes they are perplexing.
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Jan 12, 2015These songs were written on the guitar, not the piano, and at their best--“Outhouse,” “Fight Magic With Magic”--their inspirations might come from Big Star, or the Who, or the Byrds. At their weakest, they suggest ’60s garage rock as only a set of anonymous mannerisms.
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UncutJan 12, 2015There's nothing revelatory here, but it's good to see Hayes being so productive. [Feb 2015, p.77]
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Q MagazineJan 12, 2015Slurrup follows last summer's Korp Sole Roller and tones down the ornate arrangements for a more straightforward '60s British beat boom approach. The problem is it makes him sound pretty ordinary. [Feb 2015, p.110]
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Jan 12, 2015More than once, Slurrup is reminiscent of albums by comedian/musician Matt Berry (surely a fan)--but Hayes comes across as too earnest to quite make the funny stuff work.
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MagnetFeb 20, 2015These tunes would work better if the influences weren't so obvious. [No. 117, p.55]