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- Summary: The Canadian band reformed briefly after it broke up in 2006 to record these six songs for the never-finished follow-up to its 2004 debut album.
- Record Label: Mint
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 2 out of 5
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Mixed: 3 out of 5
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All six tracks are taut, catchy and depressing, 'Fire In The Ocean' in particular--making you wonder what could have been had they stayed together.
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It's not an especially coherent set; because wonderful as most of these songs are, they'd have been better if the perfectionist band had finished them properly.
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six songs may only run to seventeen minutes, but for the devoted it will be a case of quality overriding quantity.
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The EP shows the talent they had built in a short time, while also exposing their limitations on six similarly downtrodden and key-driven tracks.
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UncutThis dispiriting posthumous EP suggests there was little life left or love lost. [Dec 2008, p.108]