The band's ensemble structure (cello, trumpet, and melodica) and learned lyricism echoes the stage-packing sounds of Arcade Fire, Danielson, Bright Eyes, and Decemberists, while its shambolic, maximalist barroom aura recalls Robert Pollard, another songwriter infrequently at a loss for words.
" 5,1,2007-06-27 13:44:14,Paste Magazine,2007-06-27,http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/whitman/archives/2007/06/,1,1,"It’s a ramshackle, lo-fi, amateurish indie mess, but Walsh’s off-kilter David Byrne warble and the band’s unerring pop sensibilities combine to forge something that is both accessible and bracing.
" 6,1,2007-08-24 13:44:36,The Boston Globe,2008-08-24,http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/08/24/beyond_borders/,1,1,"It's the sound of music without limits, made by a band reveling in its own vast creative potential and the cumulative collision of its early influences.
" 7,1,2007-08-22 13:44:32,Crawdaddy!,2007-08-22,http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=2598,1,1,"To a world where logic and wonder so often converge, Hallelujah the Hills provides a warm and welcome soundtrack.
" 8,1,2007-08-10 13:44:30,Soundcheck Magazine,2007-08-10,http://soundcheckmagazine.com/magazine/index.php?option=com_simple_review&reviewID=75&task=displayReview&Itemid=27,1,1,"There’s something intimate about this album — it feels as if you’re in a room with these guys, and they laugh at your jokes, and they play a few songs, and you applaud, then you all go out and get drunk together.
" 9,1,2007-07-31 13:44:26,Dusted,2007-07-31,http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3735,1,1,"A child reading a poem, a throat clearing, a voice altering microphone treatment, all these things are slipped in without much explanation, but also without pretense. The whole record is beautifully odd, more than a little off even when it’s just one person with a guitar…so how could a few real world sounds make it any stranger?
" 21,1,2007-06-06 15:52:45,Exclaim!,2007-06-06,http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/latestsub.aspx?csid1=111&csid2=870&fid1=25937,1,1,"They are a band full of contradictions. With guitar, strings, keyboards and brass all at the band’s disposal, they’ve created some wonderful arrangements that are crowded yet manage to retain a surprising amount of clarity... There’s just so much potential on display here that it is hard not to be excited about Hallelujah The Hills.
" 34,1,2007-06-30 18:50:38,Erasing Clouds,2007-06-30,http://www.erasingclouds.com/wk1207hallelujah.html,1,1,"There’s perfect pop melodies hidden in the rock frames of numbers like “Wave Backwards to Massachusetts”, but there’s some strange drifts of folksy surrealism throughout the album as well.
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