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  • Summary: This is the second full-length release for the Ohio rock band that includes Cloud Nothings' drummer Jayson Gerycz.
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  1. May 18, 2015
    80
    Streamlined and with every moment as vital as the next yet playful and curious, Heydays manages to craft a new path from a well-travelled landscape.
  2. Mojo
    Jun 10, 2015
    80
    Fans of pre-grunge American alt-rock come on in. [Jul 2015, p.96]
  3. May 15, 2015
    70
    The current trend of Nineties-leaning music shows little signs of abating, and Heydays is yet another gloriously messy, scratchy string to its bow.
  4. May 22, 2015
    70
    Shortly after the release of Swimming Through Sunlight, Brown complained that he was already bored with its songs and admitted the band hadn't considered how it would feel to be bashing out the same garage band combinations a year later (the answer: tedious, if their new material-heavy live sets were anything to go by). With Heydays, they needn't stress about falling into that trap again.
  5. 65
    A short album of promise and potential stretched too thin by its stifled delivery.
  6. May 15, 2015
    60
    The second half of the album has less attitude, exposing the softer side of the band that has come across in the lyrics since its beginning.
  7. May 15, 2015
    58
    At just 30 minutes, Heydays plays it cool, breezy, and quick without much weight to throw around.

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