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- Summary: The sophomore album for the quartet from San Diego.
- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Rock, Punk
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Positive: 0 out of 10
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Mixed: 6 out of 10
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Negative: 4 out of 10
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Under The RadarAll 10 songs on the album include strings, including the arena-ready 'Air Traffic Control' and the nine-minute 'Hopesick.' Whether these changes represent an improvement for Louis XIV is debatable--mostly it is hit and miss. [Winter 2008, p.83]
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Here they effectively marry T. Rex's trash-glam melodicism to a relentless blue-eyed funk beat. [Feb 2008, p.95]
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The moments of rocked-out swagger are fleeting and ultimately drowned out by a musical and lyrical heaviness that turns the album into a real downer.
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Sick Dogs never coalesces into anything more than the sum of its noisy, jagged parts.
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Aside from a handful of tunes, little here is all that memorable, namely because the hooks can’t see their way clear of the repetitive, robotic arrangements.
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Louis XIV has a considerable amount of work to do for listeners to regard them as more than aimless glam-rock fetishists.
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Though more adventurous than 2005's "The Best Little Secrets Are Kept," the band's sophomore LP, Slick Dogs and Ponies, still rings soulless at its core.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 22
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Mixed: 1 out of 22
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Negative: 9 out of 22
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WarrenMFeb 19, 2008
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AdamMacD.Mar 22, 2008
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Aug 31, 2018
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KiruFeb 22, 2008What the hell is up with the rating? Seriously, this one doesn't deserve it.
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JWestApr 2, 2008
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SemolinaP.Feb 14, 2008
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DickW.Feb 14, 2008This is hands down the worst music piece ever! it was so bad it gave me cancer and made my ears bleed!
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