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Oct 12, 2015The main difference here is the overall feeling of buoyancy, as Hutchcraft and Anderson apply their top-shelf pop songcraft to a decidedly more energized and euphoric collection of tunes than we’ve heard from them in the past.
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Oct 9, 2015Though the duo sometimes return to the comparative safety of moping synthetic orchestras, and soul-reflecting mirrors lying conveniently on the Camberwell Road pavement, for the most part, there’s a new sense of fun to Hurts.
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Oct 7, 2015An album packed with skyscraping highlights.
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Oct 9, 2015Surrender just might be the album to catapult Hurts into the mainstream consciousness. If only Theo’s words were as riveting as his voice.
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Q MagazineOct 7, 2015If there's a weakness it's Hutchcraft's florid vocal style. [Nov 2015, p.111]
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Oct 12, 2015Hurts can do--and have done--better than this.
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Oct 7, 2015Surrender, accordingly, is the sound of a band in the throes of an identity crisis.
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Oct 15, 2015Hurts have always been pretty unabashed about their mainstream ambitions, which is fine, but as they explore them further, it becomes easier to strip away the affectations and see them for what they truly are: a cheesy pop band.
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Oct 9, 2015Whilst there are flashes of the burning ambitions of yore too much here is bland, formulaic and depressingly dull.
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Oct 8, 2015Their third album does little to differentiate itself from the kind of bombastic mainstream fodder that has felt stale for some time.
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Oct 7, 2015Hutchcraft might be the real problem here: he’s good at what he does, but he only does one thing: big and sad and serious.
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Positive: 36 out of 49
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Mixed: 8 out of 49
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Negative: 5 out of 49
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