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- Summary: Singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush make up the country music duo, and their fourth studio album is influenced by the "steampunk movement" in science fiction.
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- Record Label: Mercury Nashville
- Genre(s): Country, Pop/Rock
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Positive: 4 out of 11
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Mixed: 5 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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the bigger question with any record regardless of genre should always be is it good? And The Incredible Machine is very good indeed.
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As a project, The Incredible Machine succeeds big time, and may make these guys even less welcome to certain factions of Music Row as they continue to change the face of what is considered country.
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Feb 3, 2011Ultimately you have to admire the precision tooling, the cunningly-gauged parallel levels of bigness and blandness, the ruthlessness – the only-too-plausible machine.
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When having 15,000 fans wave their cell phones in the air goes from a nifty career aftereffect to the very reason for writing songs, it seems like something is amiss.
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Sugarland are ruthless in their desire to leave no radio-ready trick untried, but in the end it's too much machine, not enough heart.
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The Incredible Machine is a collection of (mostly) competent if unremarkable songs, held together by slick -- often sterile -- production.
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UncutFeb 1, 2011The downhome strum of "Stuck Like Glue" has a certain charm--at least until its horrific cod-dancehall break down--but fails to redeem a depressingly calculated record. [Mar 2011, p.101]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Aug 14, 2011
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