Hey People!
by The Beautiful New Born Children
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Oct 18, 2005
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. Dot Music
    60
    There's something about the determinedly primal recording techniques and clunky, 'we-just-learnt-this-today!' instrumentation that doesn't ring true.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    60
    Brash and trashy.
  3. Pitchfork
    60
    Lo-fi veneer aside, Beckett's songs could plausibly receive the same seven-word description as an Art Brut masterpiece-- funny lyrics shouted over basic rock riffage-- but here that's as meh as it sounds.
  5. The Guardian
    60
    Hey People! isn't something you can listen to often, but it's a bracing start to the year.
  6. Alternative Press
    50
    It's not that Hey People! is bad, because it's not--but it's not that good, either. [Feb 2006, p.126]
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  7. Q Magazine
    40
    Entertaining in the same way as an episode of Joey: pretty dumb, fairly funny, and you're glad it's over in under half an hour. [Feb 2006, p.100]
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  8. Uncut
    40
    A curiously anemic listen. [Feb 2006, p.78]
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