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UncutThere's some interesting things going on here.... Sadly, Bernard Butler's production often feels thin and tinny, which isn't just sad, but avoidable, too. [Aug 2008, p.92]
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The Black Kids may only have one trick, but as long as they only pull it at a house party, it’s the only one they’ll need.
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This debut--while not a technically poor album, boasting as it does pop hooks aplenty if you truly focus in, beyond the sometimes irritating vocal tennis--sags where it should soar, dips where it should peak.
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While Youngblood fills his sardonic twinkle with playful sexual allusions and gender ambiguity, there’s too many clunky lines and rhymes-for-rhyming’s sake for Partie Traumatic to be anything more than lyrically intriguing.
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While there's a certain bubblegum synth-pop allure and cheeky lyrical irony in songs like 'I've Underestimated My Charm (Again),' it's hard to find ourselves being carried away on youthful pluck and preciousness alone.
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Under The RadarFrom start to finish, they slather Partie Traumatic in quirk and tirelessly recycle the scrappy sonics of 'I'm Not Gonna Teach,' playing them out until even that gem of a single loses its luster. [Fall 2008, p.79]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 40
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Mixed: 6 out of 40
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Negative: 9 out of 40
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Jul 26, 2021i give a ten because the musics is so f_cking nice !!! One of the best songs i never listen in my entire life 10 10
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JimmieA.Sep 5, 2008To bad that no new songs appeared on this one, but there are so many great songs that you don't mind hearing them over and over again.
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BrianS.Aug 18, 2008