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Honey Moon

The Handsome Family

Honey Moon

The alt country duo celebrate their 20th year of marriage with an album of love songs

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Loose
UK Release date
20/04/2009
  1. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    The alt-country stalwarts Brett and Rennie Sparks have temporarily averted their gaze from death and dark things and fashioned an album of love songs.
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  2. 8.0 |   The Times

    Deliver their maiden album of love songs. Heaven forbid, however, that the clichés of such a familiar idiom be used as a creative safety net. 
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  3. 8.0 |   The Independent

    As a 20th wedding-anniversary gift, Brett and Rennie Sparks have given themselves an album of love songs
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  4. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    These songs are dioramas depicting the New Mexico wilderness as a reverberation of the couple's desires.
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  5. 7.0 |   Spin

    Continue to put a brilliantly surreal twist on everyday subjects, using nature imagery to evoke the weird intensity of all-consuming passions
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  6. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    These are simple love songs but sometimes a surprise is sprung, as on The Loneliness of Magnets, which Arcade Fire might wish they had written
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The Handsome Family: Honey Moon

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