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The WireDec 5, 2012[A] cunning, witty album. [Oct 2012, p.62]
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Sep 20, 2012Minerva's music remains an acquired taste, and Will Happiness Find Me? is not a record to convert people who've been put off by her stuff in the past. Still, it's noticeably clearer in its vision than anything she's put out before.
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Sep 20, 2012Despite the occasionally fraught listening experience, Will Happiness Find Me? remains a record that is as fantastically compelling musically as it is thought-provoking.
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Sep 20, 2012In the moment of listening itself, the lo-fi complexities, interactions, and repetitions create a revelation
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Sep 20, 2012Minerva (née Juur) takes a few steps closer to the blurry line that separates quirky, home-taped experiments and straight-up club cuts.
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Sep 20, 2012Her ethereal, purposefully-sloppily-overdubbed vocals haven't changed, but now they have a much stronger rhythmic backing.
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Sep 20, 2012The new LP from bright and bookish producer Maria Minerva (AKA Maria Juur), Will Happiness Find Me? is a surprising mosaic of deeply pained electronics paired with intense techniques, and a pop sensibility.
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Sep 20, 2012Will Happiness Find Me? is a fitful, thought-provoking listen.