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Rad Times Xpress IV - Black Bananas
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  • Summary: Jennifer Herrema returns with RTX's Nadav Eisenman, Brian Mckinley, Kurt Midness, and Jaimo Welch under the name Black Bananas.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. The Boston Phoenix
    Mar 6, 2012
    88
    Rad Times is a towering paean to a time that never was, when too much was never enough, and a three-minute song could gloriously last forever.
  2. NOW Magazine
    Mar 1, 2012
    60
    It's garish and gross but undeniably fun, an audacious train wreck of an album that's hard not to enjoy.
  3. Drowned In Sound
    Jan 30, 2012
    30
    In many ways it's a hip joke of an album.

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  1. AlexxTrusc
    4
    Variety is certainly the key to success, but the "Rad Times Xpress IV" of Black Bananas is simply overdid from the accumulation of all add-ons in the background that only seem to mess up around the main melody line. This patent admittedly worked on songs such as "TV Trouble" and the irreverent "Do It", but the quality of other composition leaves much to be desired.… Expand
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