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"Sunny Hills" is the second full length studio album from liverpool based band All We Are, released June 9, 2017 on the Domino label.
The second full-length release for the Liverpool-based trio of Guro Gikling, Richard O'Flynn and Luis Santos was produced by Kwes.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Their self-titled debut was a broad affair, rooted in rock but constantly flirting with R&B. On this follow-up, you have to wonder whether the sheer scale of their scope has begun to overwhelm them, because ‘Sunny Hills’ feels throughout like an album that isn’t sure what exactly it wants to be. In the run-up to its release, the band have talked about the political ideas apparently at its core, with the cover art depicting a small house dwarfed by newer buildings that the owner refused to sell to - guess who? - Donald Trump. The thing is, that apparent theme of resistance never really seems to materialise in a way that’s consistently coherent, and on top of that, the record shape-shifts jarringly from track to track.
‘Sunny Hills’ is at its best when it keeps things simple, with the taut ‘Dreamer’ the clear standout; perhaps next time, All We Are won’t throw quite so many ideas at the wall, because few of them stick here. Reviewed by diymag.com
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