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- Summary: Brad Wood returns to produce the Australian singer's seventh studio album.
- Record Label: New West
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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| Rise Up | |
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| Whats in your heart Whats in your head Its one of the other these days The quick or the dead Sometimes we gotta fight So don't you complain Cause I... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 10
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Mixed: 3 out of 10
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Negative: 4 out of 10
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While Lee’s preachy lyrics often feel forced and rarely reach beneath the surface of the issues, the man known for homespun sing-alongs retains his catchy strumming and perfect blend of sweet and funny musings, making it difficult not to root for him.
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He overreaches on occasion, but more often pulls off the sort of trick he manages with 'Families Cheating at Board Games,' merging faith and offbeat, cerebral underpinnings to forge quirky slivers of fresh perspective.
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Lee pulls it off--and has fun with the earnest sermonizing while he's at it.
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Even if Lee's songs of solidarity are basically sweet in nature, his puppy-dog earnestness winds up being off-putting in the long run on The Rebirth of Venus.
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Amid spoken-word interludes and I'd-like- to-buy-the-world-a-Coke-style choirs, only Lee's innate melodic gift saves him from total embarrassment.
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Were the central conceit not so half-assed and Lee's lyrics not so shallow, Venus might qualify as actively misogynist in a way that could be interesting to engage and dissect. As is, the album is simple to an annoying, tiresome degree.
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The Rebirth Of Venus, his seventh full-length, offers a more direct kind of terrible.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 1 out of 3
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StevenRApr 28, 2009
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KimMay 9, 2009
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TimMApr 28, 2009
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