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80
The main difference here is the overall feeling of buoyancy, as Hutchcraft and Anderson apply their top-shelf pop songcraft to a decidedly more energized and euphoric collection of tunes than we’ve heard from them in the past.
10y
80
Though the duo sometimes return to the comparative safety of moping synthetic orchestras, and soul-reflecting mirrors lying conveniently on the Camberwell Road pavement, for the most part, there’s a new sense of fun to Hurts.
10y
70
Surrender just might be the album to catapult Hurts into the mainstream consciousness. If only Theo’s words were as riveting as his voice.
10y
60
If there's a weakness it's Hutchcraft's florid vocal style.
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5y
50
Hurts can do--and have done--better than this.
10y
50
Surrender, accordingly, is the sound of a band in the throes of an identity crisis.
10y
40
Hutchcraft might be the real problem here: he’s good at what he does, but he only does one thing: big and sad and serious.
10y
40
Hurts have always been pretty unabashed about their mainstream ambitions, which is fine, but as they explore them further, it becomes easier to strip away the affectations and see them for what they truly are: a cheesy pop band.
10y
40
Their third album does little to differentiate itself from the kind of bombastic mainstream fodder that has felt stale for some time.
10y
{SJO 25}
I'm pretty sure I accidentally listened to this album 3 different times. And each time I was boring and sounded like the music that would play in a Plato's Closet. (Is Plato's Closet a regional chain? Whatever I don't care.) This is like the music that would play in a blank white void. No personality, no edge, no existence. N O T H I N G
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SJO4 Counter: 25
bland, lifeless, uninspired, meaningless platitudes painfully sung over some of the most generic and mediocre electropop instrumentals i've heard in a long time. it's that 2015-era electro/synthpop sound that was all over the radio broken down to its bare, uninteresting essentials. Lights had a pretty groovy bassline, and overall the instrumentals were fine, nothing to write home about though, and Hurts utterly failed to write anything meaningful or memorable to sing overtop ... read more
The duo permitted some scattered sun-rays to enlighten their sombre synth-pop heading towards a disinfected mainstream.
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Track List
| 1 | Surrender 1:18 | 68 |
| 2 | Some Kind of Heaven 3:19 | 81 |
| 3 | Why 3:28 | 72 |
| 4 | Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us 4:02 | 66 |
| 5 | Rolling Stone 3:41 | 69 |
| 6 | Lights 3:29 | 73 |
| 7 | Slow 3:29 | 64 |
| 8 | Kaleidoscope 3:05 | 62 |
| 9 | Wings 3:45 | 65 |
| 10 | Wish 3:32 | 68 |
Total Length: 33 minutes
