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Jul 17, 2012Berman and the Jews may have gotten higher-fi and easier on the ears, but never more casually charismatic and deeply urban.
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Jun 29, 2012Early Times, a collection of figuratively pre-pubescent tape-fuzz that attempts to matter to us in some way, fails at being anything other than a mish-mash of crudely recorded, harsh sounding Silver Jews castaways.
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Jun 28, 2012This is not a diamond in the rough as much as it is a piece of carbon that might, with extreme pressure and effort, turn into something someday.
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MojoJun 26, 2012A dauntless spirit permeates; and while there's only fleeting evidence of Berman's later literary wit, or Makmus' skewed rock swagger... [several songs] hint at the riches to come. [Jul 2012, p.101]
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Jun 20, 2012This record is essentially a minor curiosity, akin to the publication of the band members' childhood drawings--occasionally interesting within context but unsatisfactory and fruitless in itself.
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Jun 20, 2012This scrap of a record is nothing more than something a hardcore collector adds to the library for completion's sake.