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Posted: 7/24/12 at 1:54pm
"Susanna Hoffs's affinity for the music of the '60s has informed her work with the Bangles, her "Sid n Susie" collaborations with Matthew Sweet, and her sporadic solo career, but she's never recorded as note-perfect an homage to the lush pop of that era as she has on Someday. Hoffs is a classicist at heart, and, nearly 30 years into her career, she's never sounded as natural and at ease as she does here. That's not to say that Someday is as essential a pop album as the Bangles' All Over the Place or Different Light, or that it's as refined as Hoffs's slept-on self-titled album from 1996, but the sincerity and warmth of the project make up for its few lapses in songwriting quality."
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/susanna-hoffs-someday/2814
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/susanna-hoffs-someday/2814
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