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Jun 12, 2012Traps, gets plenty of mileage from those elements [sun, hot dogs, and babes by the pool], but it shoots them through with just enough worry and weary resignation to land them a notch above the typical empty-calorie summer jams.
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MagnetJun 13, 2012Most of Traps keeps the toes a-tapping with happily-sung, sad-bastard references to bygone lovers, running out of weed and coming of quarter-age. [No.88 p.57]
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Jun 12, 2012Traps shakes with stoned-in-a-basement riffs and sarcasm.
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Jun 21, 2012This two-faced record can be jarring, but the melodies stick, as does the venom in many of the lyrics.
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Jun 12, 2012With softer edges, a fuller sound, and some clever detours that don't take them too far away from the Jaill sound, it's a good showing that proves they are too consistent to fall into a sophomore slump.
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Jun 12, 2012The result is idiosyncratic pop-rock appealing to geeky outsiders and scene lifers that's perennially in short supply, largely by design.