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Here, the band do what anyone suffering from a knock to their confidence does - they revert to the safety of what they know best.
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MojoStarsailor find themselves in danger of being lumped in with the much-maligned 'Keaneplay' school of emote-u-like guitar rock. Yet judged on their own merits they are still producing the goods. [Nov 2005, p.104]
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They're a confident band, but the tragedy is they're at the top of someone else's game.
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Like every jerk who reads an Orwell or Rand novel and walks around a few days with a chip on his/her shoulder, Starsailor play the self-righteous yet simplistic social critic.
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By merely keeping up, they don't do much to separate themselves from the flock of young bands crossing the Atlantic -- again and again.
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Q MagazineA commanding return. [Nov 2005, p.131]
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Nothing on On The Outside is truly awful--it's just, well, good, which these days, isn't quite enough to get the attention of a well and truly fickle nation.
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SpinUnleashes a torrent of bloated, if occasionally lovely, romantic anthems that aspire to cosmic insight, yet settle for greeting-card corn. [Sep 2006, p.112]
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UncutA spirited response to their detractors. [Nov 2005, p.106]
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UrbFinds a band in utter denial of what is precisely its appeal. [Sep 2006, p.143]
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May 7, 2012
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TiagoD.Jan 6, 2008how can this album be bad? this album is the best album i've ever heard in my life!
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EddieJ.Sep 14, 2006Well it's rather bad.