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Unfortunately, there’s nothing to the band besides the concept. Far from ramshackle, exploratory fun, the songs are paint-by-numbers melodramatic nonsense with a few interesting genre gestures.
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Track after track is slathered in layers of horns and guitars and synths until the songs underneath are no longer discernible.
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It's a promising thought to know there are musicians this deft and so easily able to push themselves through so many sonic boundaries at once--but in the end, the overt and ultimately, stifling seriousness surrounding it proves to be the largest boundary BLK JKS stand before.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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DonC.Oct 5, 2009
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gomad361Sep 12, 2009Overproduction courtesy perhaps of the "tutelage of Secret Machines