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Sep 8, 2015Musically, Good Sad Happy Bad is both challenging and engrossing.
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Sep 18, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad is ultimately an optimistic record; it tries to bring out the positive in some of the most negative sounds around.
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Sep 15, 2015With their uncanny knack of still sounding like very few other bands before or since their early stirrings, faith in letting the "moment" loose has once more revealed Levi, Pell and Khan to be a strange and sorcerous triptych unto themselves.
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Sep 14, 2015Her combination of interior logic and the immediacy of improvisation is also captivating. This is deceptive, singular and highly creative music.
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Sep 4, 2015Beneath those perverted pop bounces, though, are some sadder, softer moments, and a reminder that Levi doesn’t just need discordant noise to twist your insides.
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MojoAug 26, 2015This fourth album takes then back to the headlong kitchen-sink pop of their excellent 2009 debut Jewellery. [Oct 2015, p.95]
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UncutAug 26, 2015Levi's penchant for cracked-up nursery-rhyme melodies and wry humour elevate what might've been an exercise in wilful primitivism. [Oct 2015, p.80]
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Sep 29, 2015It’s odd, yes, and quite, quite daft, but executed with some real charm.
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Sep 14, 2015Even if this isn't their easiest or most satisfying listening, they're still a remarkably unique band.
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Under The RadarAug 26, 2015Sure, it scream "art project," but that's besides the point. [Aug-Sep 2015, p.65]
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Sep 24, 2015Although Good Sad Happy Bad is certainly the band’s least polished-sounding record, the combination of the scattered arrangements and Levi’s ruminations on sadness shrewdly underline the topsy-turvy feeling suggested by the title. Even with the band’s music messily chopped, looped, and jangled, the emotional messages always ring clear.
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Sep 8, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad is a collection of intriguing sketches that might have been developed into a record; instead, they’re left to suffer in demo-like ambiguity.
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Sep 23, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad is more an interesting record than a piece of music you’ll return to for enjoyment. It’s a fun place to visit, but you might not want to live there.
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Sep 15, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad ultimately comes across as frustratingly hollow, a hodgepodge of unvarnished ideas that don't amount to their true potential.
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Sep 11, 2015For all its unwieldy eccentricity, Good Sad Happy Bad is still fascinating.
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The WireSep 1, 2015The cumulative effect of these strange patchwork songs as in the end ambivalent. [Sep 2015, p.48]
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Q MagazineAug 26, 2015There's an intriguing musical intelligence operating underneath. [Oct 2015, p.113]
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Sep 10, 2015As a document of reunion between friends, Good Sad Happy Bad feels honest enough. On its own, it hits a note too lethargic and too muted to stick the way Levi’s past work has done.
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Oct 8, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad feels like a curio: a work-in-progress raw recording that hints at better things to come rather than the real deal.
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Oct 5, 2015Good Sad Happy Bad--born out of a heavily edited jam session--feels more shapeless and, as a result, more frustrating.