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9.0
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9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
This album is meant for dreary days, but it's easy to find comfort in two people who display heartache so convincingly and with such beauty
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8.0
6485
8.0 |
Blurt
An album of autumnal delights, it proves emphatically that indeed Once was indeed not enough
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8.0
3996
8.0 |
The Irish Times
This collection documents much of their picaresque adventure with grace, wit and style.
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spin
Heartache swells from these swooning folk-pop tunes, but the presence of both of the relationship's combatants ensures that they never drown in it
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8.0
5997
8.0 |
The Sunday Times
If Strict Joy only had two words, they would be “it’s over”. This is Hansard and Irglova’s break-up album
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8.0
6392
8.0 |
FasterLouder
A significant step forward for The Swell Season, it will be interesting to see where their music will go after this – but whichever direction they choose, at least we know the end result is going to be beautiful and sweet
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
These songs aren’t breaking any new ground, but they’re well written and enjoyable, and the background makes them sort of fascinating, too
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rave Magazine
Hansard hasn’t exactly cheered up, but his walking-in-the-rain compositions clearly find comfort in the arms of sympathetic collaborators
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7.0
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7.0 |
Sydney Morning Herald
It is a fuller-sounding, band-emphasised collection, with a more muscular underpinning courtesy of most of the Frames, Hansard's group
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7.0
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The Australian
The idea of ex-lovers writing songs about each other together and separately is at least as old as Fleetwood Mac. But it does get close at times
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6.5
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6.5 |
Pitchfork
The tracks don't sound forced or awkward as they follow well-trod lyrical roads littered with wounded "you"s and "I"s, they sound honest, and an honest love song as always is hard to resist.
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Hansard and Irglova, given the right handling, make for a fascinating pairing but won’t find something consistently solid to call their own until they work out how best to trust their primal writing instincts
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