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HANSON - The Walk
| Popmatters | | Ten years after their biggest hit, the boys from Hanson are still around. Even more surprisingly, they’ve matured from three precocious kids to a genuinely talented pop/rock band. After skyrocketing to fame with the inescapable “Mmmbop”, the boys watched as their careers were nearly sucked dry by major label “marketing”, with a rarities/demos collection and a holiday album threatening to serve as their epitaph before they even got started. As the boys grew older and bucked against the major-label system, they cut ties with Island Records and released the surprisingly strong Underneath on their own label in 2003. Their fourth studio album, The Walk, continues in a similar vein....full text |
| | IndieLondon | HANSON boys Isaac, Taylor and Zac claim to have “stepped it up a notch” creatively for their fourth studio album, The Walk, the first record in a decade they’ve made completely from scratch as an indie.
The result is an expansive, eclectic offering that’s generally easy on the ear without ever putting forward a song to blow you away. It brings to mind the style of American bands such as Counting Crows and Maroon 5 and is crammed full of radio-friendly up-tempo, mid-tempo and ballad-based recordings....full text |
| | Times Online | | They were unlikely to give up, being brothers, but Hanson’s determination is matched by their lack of inspiration. A decade after their brush with greatness, the munchkins who sang Mmmbop are now married twentysomethings who purvey turgid piano rock so drab that only their name ensures its release. Imagine a pleasure-free “guilty pleasures” collection. Not even the kids’ choir on the title track or the stately plod of Go can redeem this....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic.com | | There is absolutely zero reason for me to own this. Every single song on this collection already exists somewhere in my collection - I own Grace, both the original and the bonus disc-weilding, remastered Legacy Edition; I've got The Grace EPs, and I've listened to Live At Sin-E: Legacy Edition so many times that I could, at one time, play and sing you every single note on it, and I could probably still make a good fist of it now; ...full text |
| | Uncut | A decade since his passing, Buckley remains the guiding light for tenderhearted males with ambitious, high-flown vocals.
It is a mark of his accomplishment that a career cut so cruelly short should attain the sort of posthumous reputation previously afforded his father Tim....full text |
| | NME | Despite the undignified vault-scraping that Buckley's post-death output has brought (an unfinished studio record, two so-so live albums, and a box set later), 'So Real...' is surprisingly the first Best Of compilation of his short career. So short, in fact, that he only released one album proper - the seminal 'Grace' in 1994.
However, the more galling result of Buckley's death from drowning in 1997 is his tragic musical legacy - as the archetype of the sensitive troubadour, he reignited the male singer-songwriter genre that has spluttered out Starsailor, James Blunt and (spits out skinny latte) Take That Mk 2....full text |
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