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- Summary: This is the first release in three years for the husband-and-wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks.
- Record Label: Carrot Top
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 17
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Mixed: 2 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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At her best--which must not come easy, or they'd release more and more consistent albums--Rennie Sparks is a great American realist.
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UncutAn unqualified triumph. [Jun 2006, p.122]
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Songs of weirdness and wonder, set in a half wild, half urban, entirely mysterious place where trees that grow in small squares of dirt hide man-eating boars.
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If the lyrics weren’t so surreal, you could imagine yourself dining with George and Tammy before a Grand Ole Opry performance.
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The layered caramel of [Brett's] voice stays thick from track to track, but finally, it's Rennie's poetry that gives Last Days Of Wonder its legs.
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It's still better than most of the records that have come out this year; it's just that the Sparks family has set such a high precedent that even slight missteps are bound to disappoint.
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It's easy enough to listen to the album as a whole, but roughly a third of the songs are clunkers.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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EricSJul 11, 2006Their best album yet! Rennie Sparks has a wonderfully skewed take on modern life.
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MattLJun 11, 2007
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CarlBJul 31, 2007
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LouisCJul 1, 2006
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