- Summary: The best indie rock band to come out of Modesto, California in quite some time (well, ever, we'd think) returns with a long-awaited fourth LP, arriving a full three years after The Sophtware Slump thanks to worldwide tours and a lengthy recording process.
- Record Label: V2
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 26
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Mixed: 5 out of 26
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Negative: 0 out of 26
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100A warm and deeply engaging snapshot of fractured relationships and existential dread. [Aug 2003, p.116]
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80As the concerns that drive Lytle's lyrics lift out, the well-known tremulous quiver and fragile vocals become increasingly irreplaceable, the perfect medium for songs about articulating the intangible. [Jun 2003, p.94]
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While they still sound pretty much like Neil Young if he'd heard an Aphex Twin record, the anxieties that '...Slump' articulated have been replaced by frontman Jason Lytle's desire to address more simple matters.
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60The album may not improve on 2001's Sophtware Slump, but its pleasures lie in accepting reasonable underachievement, and knowing that speed kills.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 16
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Mixed: 0 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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AlbertEinstein10
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RBrown10Three years later, the most frequently played album in the CD player. Patiently waiting for next full length release.
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JeffD10
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benjaminbunny8
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