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UncutNov 23, 2011The best moments [from The King Is Dead] are woefully unlucky not to have made the cut.
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Nov 23, 2011Long Live the King, the collection of leftovers from that album [The King is Dead], continues that same stripped-down trajectory with mixed results.
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Nov 21, 2011Sure, there is not a bad tune in the bunch, but the problem is that there isn't a particularly good one here, either.
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Nov 17, 2011This is the sort of release that can be really appealing to a band's biggest fans, the completists who want absolutely everything a group puts out.
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Nov 1, 2011The band sounds like they're having a great time, but the end result is markedly boring.
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Oct 31, 2011The rest of the EP, outside of the brooding "Burying Davy," leans closer to that countrified feel, and while it may come off a little contrived at times, these outtakes will no doubt help to satiate fans until the group reconvenes for album number seven.
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Oct 27, 2011Long Live The King, by comparison, sounds distinctly like a cutting-room-floor exercise--a collection of outtakes left behind not in the name of aesthetic cohesion, but simply because the group had better songs more deserving of release.