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Apr 7, 2011This is arguably his finest work, at least since The Gasoline Age, his '99 ode to petrol-guzzling beaters and strip-mall deadbeats.
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UncutMar 29, 2011His seventh sees few stylistic changes. [Apr 2011, p.78]
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Feb 25, 2011What matters is that this is some of the most economical and effective songwriting of his career, bolstered as always by his appealingly understated delivery and gorgeously crafted musical settings. In short: another astounding, resounding East River Pipe triumph.
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Feb 25, 2011On 2006's What Are You On?, he was too cranky by half, but here he returns to hopeful melancholy, lonely drum machines, everyday drug stories, even a '70s yacht-rock sketch ("Tommy Made a Movie"). Glad you're still breathing, man.
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Feb 25, 2011Forgoing the bitterness that made 2006's What Are You On sound so tinny and doomed, We Live in Rented Rooms, despite its endtimes stoicism, may be Cornog's highest-fi album to date.
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Apr 12, 2011Many of the songs here are too over-burdened by the minutiae of lives half lived to be transcendent, perpetually on the verge of something greater, yet too often falling just short of it. However, as with life, there are enough small moments of insight and beauty to make it worthwhile.
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Mar 9, 2011We Live in Rented Rooms, F.M. Cornog's seventh album as East River Pipe, seems particularly representative, meaning it walks familiar ground but does so with deep steps.
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Feb 25, 2011Like their creator, the 10 songs that make up We Live in Rented Rooms won't demand you listen to them. But the more these songs play, the more layers they reveal.
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Under The RadarMar 9, 2011One of Cornog's greatest strengths is what makes Rooms affecting. While his lyrics can be pretty straightforward, the songs are arranged for maximum effect. [Feb 2011, p.64]
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Feb 25, 2011Yet as wretched as his characters often are, Cornog always affords them the dignity of their own volition.