You could say it's artless art-rock, but you could also say it's arty without being art." ( Rolling Stone)Īlex Hayes: Oh Heartbeat City, here we come. "What's the use of making ambitious rock if nobody's quite sure what you're saying? Musically, the Cars are as talented and technically sophisticated as any band around, yet Ocasek's songs don't have the depth or the content – the art – of such wizardly peers as Thomas Dolby and Laurie Anderson. They still don't have much to say and they're still pretty arch about it, but that's no reason for anybody to get unduly bothered, and neither is Greg Hawkes's Fairlight." ( Robert Christgau) "With hooks recurring as predictably as zebras on a carousel or heartbeats in a city, the glossy approach the Cars invented has made this the best year for pure pop in damn near twenty, and it's only fair that they should return so confidently to form. Heartbeat City is on that list of essential albums that our kids or grandkids will be playing – in who-knows-what new shiny format (or maybe beamed directly into their brains) – for eons to come. Still sounds magical." ( Metro Weekly) Mutt Lange presented them perfectly for the era, and the songs were the strongest of their career. "It’s Heartbeat City that stands at the core of their sound, and their success.
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