No Mas - Javelin
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  • Summary: After receiving a good reception from the demo release, "Jamz n Jemz," the duo from Providence, Rhode Island, releases its full-length debut on Luaka Bop.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Javelin's No Mas presents 15 handmade jams that might not get the party started, but should at least sustain the hazy sunshine of 2009's "Deadbeat Summer" through summer 2010.
  2. For the most part, the cutesiness is kept just controlled enough to make the songs intriguing.
  3. 80
    Javelin know what they're good at, where they stand, and they aren't trying to shove their knowledge and musical interests in their listeners faces. Instead, they let them find it for themselves by picking up on bits and pieces and carrying them forward, focusing on what interests them without having to worry about what they don't.
  4. Dec 21, 2010
    60
    In lengthening the song lengths and trimming the tracklist, No Mas jettisons the spontaneous, off-the-cuff energy that made their debut so incredibly fun.

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