transformission’s top 20 albums of ‘08: #16 – honeysuckle weeks by the submarines
- Filed under: relevintage
- Date: Dec 20,2008

A (mostly) sunny blast of eclectic soundscapes, Honeysuckle Weeks is a record of love and happiness that actually leaves you as content as its subject matter, a giddy (rather than guilty) pleasure of dizzying pop noise. – Prefix Mag
…there will always be a place for well-written songs, cleanly-produced, tightly-arranged, and enthusiastically performed. The Submarines’ singles are peppy and catchy, while their more adventurous songs avoid the potholes of conventional ballads and veer off towards dub and folk. – PopMatters
…what makes Honeysuckle Weeks sound so tamely content is also what makes it so refreshingly new. Nothing like the manufactured innocence of so many pop bands, which can only exist as a contrast to stultifying darkness and broken perspectives, the Submarines seem to be operating in a vacuum of inverted limitations. The album is a surprise for it. – cokemachineglow












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