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The playing is tighter and more polished, but they haven't lost any of their manic energy, and in fact this outing is, if anything, even more energetic than "Head Home."
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The carnival-esque, unsettling vibe permeating forms both its strong appeal and sometime downfall, as sustaining momentum at the pace O’Death strive to can prove alienating. Peppered with stark imagery and carried off with consummate musical skill however, for the most part it’s utterly absorbing.
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Everything else on the album acquits itself with varying degrees of resonance.
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Mixing the lawlessness of Hank Williams with the Gypsy fervor of Gogol Bordello, the band's second album is a scrappy, vaguely deranged, country-punk mélange that goes down like an impeccably mixed mint julep: sweet until it burns.
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When it comes to production values, Broken Hymns is a marked improvement from 2005’s self-financed "Head Home." Still, songs kinda meant to evoke the 1930s aren’t necessarily better or worse off with snazzier studio treatment.
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UncutThe hipster-redneck rhetoric could grate, but O'Death are too good to be dismised as a novelty act. [Dec 2008, p.105]
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The music is often cresting and joyous, implying sweating bodies careening through a space designed to hold half their number.
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Negative: 1 out of 6
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RaquelA.Nov 23, 2008
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FrancisTOct 31, 2008Helps to be in the mindspace of one of O'death's shows to listen to the album, which can be a strange place to be anyway.