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80
Annie has returned, after 11 years away, with a shiny but deceptive pick’n’mix bag, in that the more you listen, the more it delivers.
3mo
80
This gorgeous album is the essence of what makes Annie so special.
3mo
80
Annie, now 42, may be a very different person to the one she was 20 years ago, but her silvery lilt and one-of-a-kind artistry remain unchanged.
3mo
75
Dark Hearts has a scattering of stellar moments–and one could even argue that its highpoints are some of Annie’s best to date.
3mo
71
Annie’s first album in about a decade, written and and recorded in a haunted house, collapses decades into an evocative blur.
3mo
70
Dark Hearts opts for a different kind of escape. Ten years on from her last full-length album, the singer is reckoning with the present by diving headlong into her past with equal parts regret and wonder.
3mo
70
It has many well-crafted moments and some stellar production choices, and there aren’t any outright bad songs; the likelihood is that some of the less obviously pop moments have the potential to grow over time.
3mo
70
Dark Hearts is a beautiful journey that illustrates a shared sadness for lonely souls driving towards a fraught and empty future.
2mo
65
With Annie’s third studio album, Dark Hearts, she once again engages in new paths, with much less excitement but no less fortitude.
3mo
60
Chalk it up as a noble experiment, pick and choose the songs that work, and hope that next time around everything will click back into place.
3mo
40
With a lack of immediacy, paper-thin production and no discernible hooks throughout, for anyone still humming ‘Chewing Gum’ or ‘Heartbeat’, it’s a disappointment.
3mo
Shit! I can't believe I slept over this album. There's some really good songs in this record, a well-made synthpop album that has the right instrumentation. Annie's voice has such a sense of comfort, sweet but hits the right areas, the lyrics are simple but catchy, perhaps a project made to be easily digestive.
"Amphetamine Annie-dog
Pulls her trash
And her stories
From place to place"
William Corgan, 1998
NR
Pulls her trash
And her stories
From place to place"
William Corgan, 1998
NR
idc i really liked this. it's a nice album and just a pleasant, smooth and light listen overall. her voice blends so well with the instrumentals of each song.
May be one of the best, if not the best, plain simple synthpop album this year. Molto bene
any fool can come up with a concept album and any other fool will mind it... and it’s no different here.
at first, as the album immediately commences with a lovestruck daydreaming song, you’d guess it’s going to be one of those records. the title track highly suggests so. and that’s not entirely wrong, the sentimentalism goes on, but only to a certain extent. a few moments in and you already have in view a few childhood memories from Annie, her heredity, how hopeful in ... read more
at first, as the album immediately commences with a lovestruck daydreaming song, you’d guess it’s going to be one of those records. the title track highly suggests so. and that’s not entirely wrong, the sentimentalism goes on, but only to a certain extent. a few moments in and you already have in view a few childhood memories from Annie, her heredity, how hopeful in ... read more
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Track List
- In Heaven
- The Streets Where I Belong
- Dark Hearts
- Miracle Mile
- Corridors Of Time
- Forever ’92
- American Cars
- Mermaid Dreams
- Stay Tomorrow
- The Countdown To The End Of The World
- The Bomb
- The Untold Story
- It’s Finally Over
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Added on: June 19, 2020