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Feb 17, 2011A powerfully uncomplicated rock album.
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Feb 17, 2011It's an album that might seem superficially bright and shiny, but the edges are sharper than they appear.
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Feb 17, 2011If you come to this record for the title, expecting rueful literacy and songwriterly self-deprecation, you might be pleasantly surprised by how hard it rocks and what an undemanding good time it can be.
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Feb 17, 2011The Year of Magical Drinking is a solid pop album in its own right, with all the economic hooks of a Fountains of Wayne record but none of that band's antiseptic production.
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Feb 17, 2011This music is surely reminiscent of his work with the Broken West, so as Apex Manor Flournoy hasn't reinvented himself. But he has found a new sharpness to his songs by, ironically, letting the reigns loose a little.
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Feb 17, 2011What the album lacks in focus, it makes up for in sheer listenability.
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Feb 17, 2011The Year of Magical Drinking strikes me as an album with something interesting to say, a quality only increased by knowing where Flournoy is coming from.