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| 3 by Rolling Stone |
Glasgow's Mogwai, like Low, their nearest discernible psychic cousins,
perpetually mine one beautifully bummed-out vein and dig deeper into it with
each album. They have a sense of humor, but you'd on... |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
This is Mogwai distilled to their essence, and the result is an album of huge power, emotional depth and feeling, with vocals submerged under a claustrophobic blanket of effects and guitars battling with viola, cello, violin and piano. It's just as Eno as it is S***t, and all the greater for that. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
In the end, Happy Songs might sound like Mogwai's earlier work or be unapproachable to the listener who spends his time chilling in Sam Goody, but that doesn't mean it's not one of the most amazing albums of the year. |
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| n/a by Junkmedia |
Happy Songs is epic and subtle, technically savvy and emotionally charged and visceral all at once -- in short, it's a summary of everything that is great about Mogwai's music. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
The highlights would be far better suited to lesser status on a great album, and turning away from the impressive vocal performances of Rock Action to fully retreat into vocoders and hushed mumbling is a step backwards. [Note: Score listed is an average of two separate reviews, scoring 91 and 72.] |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
May well come to be regarded as Mogwai's graduation from unproven Young Team to mature, veteran rock outfit. |
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| n/a by NME |
Their most intriguing, beautiful and dazzling record to date. |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
Happy Songs finds middle ground between brevity and meandering. |
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| n/a by www.dotmusic.com |
What really makes this record engaging is that the simmering tension often chooses not to explode, yet somehow it works. |
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| n/a by www.splendidezine.com |
Though the group largely downplays their skull-splitting excesses, their songs resonate with a fury that a lifetime worth of broken power-chords couldn't match. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
Moving well beyond the claustrophobic and listless tendencies of earlier releases and doing away with their predictably two-dimensional dynamics, this is Mogwai's strongest album to date. |
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| n/a by www.almostcool.org |
Several of the shorter tracks feel like little more than filler. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
The Stephen Kings of menacing post-rock, it seems that in absence of Young Team's glorious cacophany their tremendous build-up often comes to nothing. And it sounds as though they've come to terms with that. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
Happy Songs for Happy People offers many of the thrills of Rock Action, but without the diversity and succinctness that made that album shine. |
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