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Apr 26, 2012Absolutely stunning... One HUGE startling success.
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Apr 27, 2012[Once Krug's genius is realized by the world] then riches untold will pile up and allow him to do nothing but make albums like 'Heartbreaking Bravery'.
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Apr 17, 2012Where Krug's output in the late 2000s was virtuosic and volatile, Bravery is poised and comparatively stoic. The record functions on tension and, for the most part, does so brilliantly.
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Apr 16, 2012Despite the gratuitous, overripe details of these songs--potent, lurid confessions; broken plates and bloody lips--Heartbreaking Bravery is a peaceful, centered work.
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Apr 17, 2012Heartbreaking Bravery is best when it smolders.
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Under The RadarJul 9, 2012It all adds up to Krug's most engrossing work yet as Moonface and his best album since Sunset Rubdown's 2009 LP Dragonslayer. [Jun 2012, p.154]
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Apr 26, 2012It ends up sounding in love with pop music and longer-form experimental music as well, but the mood captured, and the meditative speed it's captured at, plunge Heartbreaking Bravery into new depths.
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Apr 25, 2012Heartbreaking Bravery is not an especially weird album, certainly not in comparison with Krug's other work, but it's alluring and intriguing all the same.
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Q MagazineApr 25, 2012Heartbreaking Bravery's pop sensibilities take Moonface out of his bizarre world and into a place much more accessible. [May 2012, p.101]
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Apr 20, 2012Heartbreaking Bravery is both entryway and endpoint, a listening experience that's harrowing and gripping and, no matter how you come at it, moving. In other words, it remains true to its title.
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Apr 17, 2012For the many Heartbreaking Bravery will help rekindle an interest in Krug once more.
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Apr 16, 2012A relatively straightforward rock record with no shortage of epic flourishes and catchy choruses.
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Apr 17, 2012Heartbreaking Bravery is pretty far-out and difficult to pigeonhole, even for Krug's standards--but what sets is apart from the rest of his catalog is a dark, throbbing instrumental cohesion.
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Apr 16, 2012There's a purposeful simplicity to its narrative approach and a concreteness to its imagery--even when our narrator sounds less than engaged.
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May 1, 2012Minor rants notwithstanding, Heartbreaking Bravery is a decent album.
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Apr 20, 2012Heartbreaking Bravery is a fantastic slab of meticulous indie composition by all standards, but it's truly incredible in its ability to make almost every statement on the record come off like the last word.
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Apr 19, 2012It is, by some distance, Krug's best work as Moonface. It's riveted with some glorious, soaring moments and the taut motorik rhythm is a compulsive mesh for the album.
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Apr 17, 2012From the first drum hits and piano chords of the opening title track, it's evident that this is a match made in black-light heaven.
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Apr 16, 2012The result is a blend of startling lyrical depth and slow, whirlpools of murky music.
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Apr 16, 2012All in all, With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery has the air of a project to it rather than a vital artistic pursuit.
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MojoApr 25, 2012A striking stop-gap for Krug and Siinai. [May 2012, p.87]
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Apr 24, 2012Despite all his sonic island-hopping over the years, Krug has an aesthetic noticeable as his, and unfortunately his backing band here doesn't quite have the same unique musical vision.
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Apr 16, 2012Swirling synths abound, but remain encased in four-minute micro-epics which sometimes mine the icy ambition of pre-megastardom Simple Minds.