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Jul 6, 2011It's fair to say that Hooray For Earth is a relative latecomer to the indie synth-rock party, but it certainly makes for an interesting guest
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Jul 6, 2011With its infectious energy and gargantuan hooks, there's little doubt True Loves is going to turn more than a few heads.
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Jul 25, 2011Rarely does music feel this much like a celebration, and though it might not get to you emotionally, that doesn't mean you can't sing along.
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Feb 17, 2012True Loves delivers on the fantastic promise of its title-track, comprising a commendable listen for those demanding defined individuality from their chosen songsmiths.
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Jul 6, 2011True Loves is remarkably a quantum leap artistically over the band's fine debut EP, and exhibits a surfeit of sonic possibilities, auguring that the best may still be yet to come for this superb band.
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Jul 6, 2011As a whole, the album can amount to aural overload. If there's an album that calls for a breather between listens, it's this one. But, taken individually, this is an unbelievable collection of songs that will be finding their way onto mix CDs and iTunes playlists for a long time to come.
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Jul 6, 2011As extroverted as these songs sound, you really never get a full sense of Hooray For Earth's personality.
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Feb 27, 2012The album was entirely performed, engineered and produced by Noel Heroux; perhaps the input of a full band and a producer would have brought these songs to life and produced a rather more coherent and fully formed debut.
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Jul 28, 2011As it stands, I enjoy it for what it is.
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Feb 29, 2012Heroux may yet have an album in him that doesn't basically sound like his favourite '80s music stapled together, but this ain't it.
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Jul 6, 2011There are some nice elements here: the vocals and vocal harmonies are reasonably solid, but they're trapped underneath layers of, well, noise.
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Q MagazineJan 2, 2013They're unpleasantly listenable. [Jul 2012, p.103]