Sacred Hearts Club
| FOSTER THE PEOPLE
Sacred Hearts Club
Sacred Hearts Club is the third studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on July 21, 2017, through Columbia Records. The album was preceded by the extended play III, which is composed of three tracks from the album. Departing from the organic, acoustic sound of their previous 2014 album, it draws upon soul, dance, and electronic genres while maintaining their signature indie pop sound. - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Mark Foster enlists more beat-filled haze for his third album, a tuneful but confounding modern pop event that lands somewhere between the Beach Boys and Just Blaze.
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Paste
Indie-pop outfit Foster the People’s third record, Sacred Hearts Club, is a mesmerizing journey that expounds on the ideas initially laid out on 2011’s Torches.
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Plugged In
Sacred Hearts Club serves as yet another showcase for Foster the People's eclectic sound: an electropop mélange that pays homage to '60s-ish psychedelia and Beach Boys-inspired melodies and harmonies.
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The Line of Best Fit
If there was ever the perfect illustration of peaking too soon, Foster the People hit the bullseye.
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Spill Magazine
The overall sound of Sacred Hearts Club is upbeat and airy in the best way possible. The techno-pop vibe combined with youthful vocals makes this album a sublime summer release perfect for long drives or late night hang outs.
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Drowned in Sound
In the end, Sacred Hearts Club isn’t so bold a departure as others might think. Foster’s probably been dying to write a record like this for years – and, y’know, so long as he continues to write from ever-so-slightly selfless angles, he’s welcome to push his crew wherever he pleases.
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Sputnik Music
- at the core of Sacred Hearts Club, beyond any restrictions of one’s tastes or musical disposition, there is certainly enjoyable music to be found. Just don’t let the neon lights blind you on the way there.
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Aleteia
Sacred Hearts Club is the kind of album that’s content just to get you smiling, dancing, and singing along. But with the joy of faith so intertwined with its party atmosphere, its joy also feels that much more full.
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Newsday
With its third album, “Sacred Hearts Club” (Columbia), though, Foster the People is back to using catchy music to deliver more complicated, pumped-up ideas.
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AV Music
Overall, Sacred Hearts Club also signals a return to Foster The People’s more electronic origins, but not in the inventive way that was used on Torches.
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All Music
Neon-toned and deliciously funky, Foster the People's third studio album, 2017's Sacred Hearts Club, finds the group eschewing its pleasant indie pop sound in favor of an album of lightly experimental, fluorescent-lit, groove-based tracks.
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The Young Folks
Sacred Hearts Club is a step in a new direction, but true to Foster the People’s ethos. It might not suit all longtime fans’ taste, but it’s beautiful in its honesty and hope. If you don’t like it the first time, give it another listen—it deserves to fall upon attentive ears.
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Riff Magazine
Of the 12 songs on Sacred Hearts Club, 10 are what Foster the People do best. Upbeat, attention-getting, indie dance-pop. It’s what made their debut album so good, and what will make so many love this album when it drops this week.
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Niner Times
With Friday marking the release of yet another highly-anticipated alternative album in Foster the People’s third record, ‘Sacred Hearts Club,’ the summer of rocking pop anthems that is Summer 2017 seems to have another hit on its hands.
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Get Some Magazine
Foster the People have successfully reinvented themselves without losing the core of what made them appealing to begin with.
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Get Alternative
I believe that listeners will be pleasantly surprised by how phenomenal this album turned out to be.
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KRUI FM
Overall, “Sacred Hearts Club” is a decent album, but Foster the People has yet to live up to “Torches” in my opinion.
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B-Sides TV
It’s good background music, or something to ease tension in a crowd full of people, but nothing that grabs your attention, and in the day and age of everything, all the time, music for the sake of music needs to fight back.
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Music Connection
-as a whole, Sacred Hearts Club is a welcomed step in the right direction.
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Collegian.com
Should you listen to it?: Absolutely!
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