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If you’ll forgive some highly technical critic-speak, Maritime just “sound” a lot better on “Human Hearts.”
 
Don’t despair, aspiring rock writers — it’s taken me YEARS to hone my prose and critical thinking to the point where I can formulate these kinds of highfalutin hypotheses with such seemingly minimal effort.  
 
Same goes for Maritime.

The difference between “Human Hearts” and the first three records from this Promise Ring - Dismemberment Plan love child is that you can’t hear the effort, the tinkering, the struggle to reconcile indie rock quirks with the mainstream hooks whose easy charms seemed to embarrass the band a little. From the get-go, “Human Hearts” has no such qualms. A cool stutter-strum kicks off “It’s Casual” looking for a beat, catches hold of one, and takes off on a warm rush of guitars and bittersweet brushes with electronica that don’t stop for the next 35 minutes.

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