I Love People
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| I Love People | ||||
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| Released | July 25, 2025 | |||
| Genre | Pop[1] | |||
| Length | 37:15 | |||
| Label | Drag City | |||
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| Singles from I Love People | ||||
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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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Beats Per Minute | 74%[4] |
| Pitchfork | 7.7/10[5] |
| Spectrum Culture | 82%[6] |
| Uncut | [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]