Happiness,
the Beloved's debut album, collects their four major hits -- "Hello," "The Sun Rising," "Love Takes Me Higher," and "Time After Time" -- and sprinkles in a few more club-oriented album tracks to fill out the LP. The post-rave synth-popsters are a bit too heavily tied to the heady days of
ABC and
Erasure, but
Happiness suits its title with a set of undeniably pleasant dance-pop.
–
John Bush, Rovi