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Feb 11, 2011Unlearn (Hardly Art), their full-length debut, lurches from Tropicália ("Where the Walls Are Made of Grass") to Brill Building pop ("Powerful Lovin'") to doo-wop (the title track), all with an air of shrewd dishevelment.
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Feb 11, 2011Having developed feelers on both ends, the partnership's combined strengths via production chops and band practice really lend to the record's debut maturity.
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Feb 11, 2011Its deeper appeal is that it's earwormy enough to take a casual listener multiple go-rounds to pick up on that.
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Feb 11, 2011It is an unmistakably raw first album of ripe potential, and one of the more memorable releases of the early weeks of this year.
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Feb 11, 2011While Savage and Kelly clearly get big kicks from genre-jumping and trying to trip out listeners, "Baby Boomer," "Michael Kelly," and "The World Never Stops" show that they can rock earnestly as well.
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Feb 11, 2011The end result is the 11 songs on Unlearn, which I'll save you the frustration of calling "eclectic" and opt for the even more euphemistic "well-informed."
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Mar 17, 2011Flute and sax make the grab bag more interesting, though the dizzying range across 11 songs renders Unlearn a bit unfocused.