I Love People

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I Love People
Cory Hanson - I Love People.jpg
Studio album by
Cory Hanson
ReleasedJuly 25, 2025 (2025-07-25)
Genre Pop [1]
Length37:15
Label Drag City
Cory Hanson chronology
Western Cum
(2023)		I Love People
(2025)
Singles from I Love People
  1. "Bird on a Swing"
    Released: May 6, 2025
  2. "Lou Reed"
    Released: June 17, 2025

I Love People is the fourth studio album by American psych-rock singer-songwriter Cory Hanson. It was released on July 25, 2025, via Drag City in LP, CD, cassette and digital formats. "Bird on a Swing" was released as a single on May 6, 2025, with a music video directed by Hanson. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Beats Per Minute 74% [4]
Pitchfork 7.7/10 [5]
Spectrum Culture82% [6]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

In a four-star review for Uncut , Sam Richards opined, "I Love People swells with strings, horns and choirs but in a way that is meticulously controlled and never gratuitous, every ounce of indulgent flab forensically removed in the manner of one of the great Nashville arrangers." [7] John Denekamp of Oor observed that the album "sounds mainly like a classic pop record from the seventies, which reminds of a quirky songsmith like Todd Rundgren." [1]

Writing for Spectrum Culture with a 82% rating, Trevor Zaple remarked, "Most of the album's strengths lie in big, stately piano ballads, sweetened with strings and the occasional horn passage." [6] AllMusic 's Fred Thomas stated, "Like so much of Hanson's music, these songs come on strong from one direction while hiding deeper peculiarities and weirdnesses below the surface." [3]

Rating the album 7.7 out of ten, Ryan Meehan of Pitchfork observed, "while the blank, crosshairs-trained grimace on the album's cover is a gesture of bipartisan misanthropy, I Love People still feels like a scourging of the late Biden regime's folksy grin." [5] Allen Hale assigned the album a rating of 74% in his review for Beats Per Minute , stating "While the album is a little front-heavy, later gems such as 'Texas Weather' provide a feel-good, windows-down sound, soaring towards the end of the LP." [4]

Track listing

I Love People track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Bird on a Swing"3:03
2."Joker"3:40
3."I Love People"3:48
4."I Don't Believe You"2:35
5."Santa Claus Is Coming Back to Town"2:28
6."Lou Reed"3:14
7."Final Frontier"3:45
8."Texas Weather"4:21
9."Bad Miracles"3:54
10."Old Policeman"3:19
11."On the Rocks"3:08
Total length:37:15

Personnel

Credits adapted from Bandcamp.

References

  1. 1 2 Denekamp, John (July 29, 2025). "Recensie: Cory Hanson – I Love People". Oor (in Dutch). Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  2. ↑ Deville, Chris (May 6, 2025). "Wand's Cory Hanson Announces New Album 'I Love People': Hear "Bird On A Swing"". Stereogum . Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Thomas, Fred (July 25, 2025). "I Love People Review". AllMusic . Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Hale, Allen (July 31, 2025). "Album Review: Cory Hanson – I Love People". Beats Per Minute . Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Meehan, Ryan (July 29, 2025). "Cory Hanson: I Love People". Pitchfork . Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Zaple, Trevor (July 29, 2025). "Cory Hanson: I Love People". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Richards, Sam (August 6, 2025). "Cory Hanson's I Love People reviewed: subversive American songcraft from the Wand mainman". Uncut . Retrieved September 29, 2025.
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