★★★★★
"Everything old is new again," homegrown performer Peter Allen once proclaimed. It's an idiom that neatly defines HelloGoodbye's third album. Everything Is Debatable represents much more than a lazy reprisal of ideas: the album is a stylistic fusion of its two predecessors. It works well, too, the jangly guitar of Would It Kill You? meshing comfortably with the obnoxious synths of Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-12-10
★★★★★
Tweet JustGoodbye Sweeping generalization: the rise of MDMA and ecstasy use among younger kids is making for worse and worse music. There are any number of albums from this year to pick from to prove this point, and one is Hellogoodbye's newest release Everything is Debatable, which takes the best of their poppy Hot Topic-infused dance beats and sullies it with a misguided '80s keyboard throwback and the complete wrong kind of atmospheric sounds...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-12-03
★★★★★
You could say Forrest Kiline went through the music equivalent of the television show What Not To Wear as 2011's critically lauded Would It Kill You? was a stark departure from the electro-pop his band Hellogoodbye released years previous on Drive-Thru Records. In fact, it was one of the most remarkable band makeovers in recent memory. During the four years it took for Kline to move past Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-11-06
★★★★★
Hellogoodbye's sophomore album, 2010's Would It Kill You?, marked a radical kiss-off to the sounds the group built their name on--namely, the shift from at-times grating synth-pop to creaky indie pop that oozed ELO and the Kinks. Kline has again reinvented himself on Everything Is Debatable, this time in the perfect marriage of the two styles...
- altpress.com
2013-10-29
★★★★★
Hellogoodbye has taken a fairly... meandering path up to this point. They came out swinging in 2006 with their debut full-length Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!, an indie-pop gem so perfectly designed for the cutesy, mid-two-thousands emo-scene-pop crowd (it name checks pretty much everything my friends and I pretended to be interested in during ninth grade)...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-10-28
★★★★★
Sound: I was very surprised when I first heard this CD because I thought the album would sound like Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn, their first single which is a third-wave emo/synth-rock song (aka, pop music crap) That gets occasional play time on MTV 2. To my surprise and delight, Z.A.V.D. is nothing like that at all, it is instead a delicious music speedball, one part new wave electronica, and one part indie rock and roll. Most young Southern California bands sound very much the same, but Z.A.V...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Californians HelloGoodbye have struck gold with this, their sophomore record. Would It Kill You? appears equal parts chipper and enchanting and front man Forrest Kline wastes few moments in bolstering such stocks, supplying his cache of tender sentiments effortlessly. Impressively, Would It Kill You? nails a perfect balance in sounding pleasant without sliding helplessly towards an inoffensive void...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-08-29
★★★★★
Five years from the release of their first full-length ('Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!' and Huntington Beach, California's Hellogoodbye are a different band. After a slight line-up change and a somewhat complicated departure from Drive-Thru Records, 'Would It Kill You?' sees Hellogoodbye being more mature but keeping bright, pop sensibilities that made them who they were last time round...
- www.alterthepress.com
2011-03-21
★★★★★
Summary: Dear Music-lover: 10 of 10 thought this review was well written Do you like pop music? Pop isn't a genre any more, if it ever was, but it's certainly a mindset. Fuck Westlife, cheap ballads and cheesy lyrics. Fuck Rihanna, provocation and dancefloors. Even fuck fun., cute melodies and happiness. Fuck Britney Spears. You know what the world doesn't need? More apologetic bullshit, more dubstep bridges, more trends. Fuck trends. Trends are for the insecure...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-02-21
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