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The Hoosiers

The Illusion of Safety

Second collection of old-fashioned pop rock anthems from the Anglo-Swedish outfit

ADM rating[?]: 5.3
Label: RCA
UK Release date: 16/08/2010

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6.0 15457
6.0 | The Guardian

You could argue the Hoosiers have just exchanged one set of cliches for another, but the end result still somehow seems less irritatingly craven than its predecessor
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6.0 | BBC

It succeeds, like its predecessor ... thanks to straight-laced, fashion-resistant GMTV pop-rock
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6.0 | Evening Standard

They can still irritate at 50 paces, but daytime radio will find it hard to ignore tunes this sunny
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6.0 15529
6.0 | The Scotsman

The trio are generally better at bold overstatement, but the melancholic Devil's In The Detail whirs and chimes like a toybox Radiohead
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5.0 | The Observer

The English-Swedish trio trade 70s glam-pop for 80s synths and songs about rejection and dangerous love
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4.0 | Drowned In Sound

Two killer pop songs does not a pop classic make. And unfortunately, despite their gallant strides, the rest of the album is a chore
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