Hurts
Happiness

For something with such a promising name, this record doesn't exactly exude joy - in fact on the first listen, it comes across as slow, weird and slig...

Hurts - HappinessThere has been much hype around Hurts. Known for a while only as the unknown duo who’d managed to snare Kylie Minogue for a collabora...

Hurts consists of two friends from Manchester that set out to restore the reputation of Manchester as one of the great musical scenes in the country. ...

It’s weird how sometimes you can hear a song on the radio or on Spotify in my case, for the first time but still know a large portion of the lyrics. E...

The amount of hype Hurts have received is never healthy. The type of hype that could only be satiated if the duo released a lyrical masterpiece that u...

Lazy it may be, but the simplest way to position a new artist or group is often by comparison. In Hurts?s case, they've been dubbed by many a critic a...

And so the '80s revival continues apace with Hurts channelling what some will consider the best bits of that particular decade. Others will shake thei...

Ironic, perhaps, given the jut of their jaws, but people seem to be approaching Hurts from completely the wrong angle. They are inordinately beautiful...

If anything is certain about Hurts, then it’s that they have more than earned their ‘cool’ status. In late 2009, “Wonderful Life” appeared without war...

Having been tipped for success by the BBC on their Sound of 2010 shortlist, the anticipation surrounding the debut album from Manchester duo Theo Hutc...