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- Summary: The Pennsylvania band releases the EP in advance of a full studio album in the fall.
- Record Label: Chocodog
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 7
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Mixed: 4 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Ever the brilliant craftsmen, Gene and Dean display a sharp eye for genre-specific details, offering just the right amounts of cheese and hooks (not to mention their trademark vulgarity) on splendidly stupid songs.
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As a summer stopgap for their new full-length this fall, Friends. works fine. The title track is quality, plus their fanbase eats this shit up.
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In the end this is a nice EP to play and a timely release considering the season and what they're releasing it right before.
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This record lacks a single guitar-driven rock song, instead spoofing saccharine dance-pop and exotic tropical genres.
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This can’t be recommended for anyone but a pretty serious fan.
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The rest of this collection floats between funny and worthless, tending much more towards the latter by the EP's close.
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They seem to have packed up that cleverness with their Scotchgard bongs and headed straight for the wishy-washy world of adult contemporary without even knowing it.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 2 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Sep 8, 2010
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[Anonymous]Aug 12, 2007Not their best work, but a decent stop-gap for hardcore fans.
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MarkBAug 30, 2007
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DavidG.Aug 8, 2007First track is fantastic; rest sounds like white pepper outtakes. Note that they have not been playing any of these songs live.
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ChristopherD.Aug 16, 20073 out of the 5 songs are good but not the typical weird stuff that ween is known for, I wish they would head back into stuff that is more brown zone.
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