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Jul 12, 2024Her previous album was a breakout success for good reason, but My Light, My Destroyer succeeds in all the right ways, pushing Jenkins' songcraft ever forward and expanding her already impressive catalog.
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Jul 12, 2024Effortlessly traversing a diverse blend of musical genres, mixing spoken word and field recordings with orchestral flourishes, Jenkins leads the listener on a cinematic journey through the minutiae of daily life, transforming the mundane into something much more profound.
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Jul 11, 2024There are a couple of misses, particularly ‘G.O.A.T’’s obvious attempt at a sports montage soundtrack, but largely ‘Happenings’ is full of genuinely interesting choices. Free to indulge all the multitudes of his tastes, Pizzorno is managing, against many odds, to keep Kasabian moving forward.
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Jul 8, 2024At just 28 minutes in length, Kasabian’s eighth studio effort is concise, precise and generally focused. This allows a vibrant emotional clarity to bleed through its swaggering fabric, adding up to Kasabian’s strongest album in some years.
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Jul 5, 2024This is Kasabian’s second album with Pizzorno on the microphone, so tightly honed that if it had been a young band’s debut, I think we’d be clambering over ourselves proclaiming Kasabian rock’s saviours.
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Jul 5, 2024Happenings finds the Leicester band on synth-corroding, speaker-rattling form, with Pizzorno banging out big tunes and splashing out big, bell-bottomed chords. .... The slower songs still keep the tunes rolling.
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Jul 18, 2024While nothing on Happenings has quite the anthemic urge of early hits like “Empire” or “Fire”, the craftsmanship and infectiousness of the material make the album a fun listen amid life’s brighter moments.
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Jul 5, 2024If 2022 album ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’ represented a clearing of the decks, a shake-up from top to the bottom, then ‘Happenings’ continues this process. As times, it feels as though you’re caught in a snow-globe, being shaken up and down, from side to side – watching the pieces fall is a thrilling experience.
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Record CollectorJul 15, 2024True, the stoner-rock Passengers interrupts the flow - but not for long. Ironically, it makes for Kasabian's most epic album since Empire 18 years ago. [Aug 2024, p.104]
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MojoJul 5, 2024Short it may be, but Happenings is full of ideas. [Aug 2024, p.83]
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Jul 5, 2024With Meighan gone, Happenings does at times sound like the work of a band struggling with an identity crisis and consequently cosplaying some of their peers.
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Jul 5, 2024Pizzorno has a strong melodic grasp and a way with a knockout chorus, as demonstrated on Coming Back to Me Good. .... Happenings is less enjoyable when it ventures into more traditional Kasabian territory.
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Jul 5, 2024While Meighan’s Liam Gallagher-like machismo may not have been to everyone’s taste, his vocals undoubtedly had much more presence than Pizzorno’s rather bland voice, which does little more than carry the songs on Happenings along, and is indicative of a broader lack of musical personality combined with a lack of truly memorable songs.