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ReggieDSep 18, 2005What this album does is sink: and what is sinking is teeth into the grindstone. Where ABBA and their followers have failed, they pick up and drop the tiniest nuances fit to squirm their way into the middle of the world. Wrecked? Yeah, maybe their equipment, but when an album comes along that can shake the very hound you sleep on, you dont look away twice. Everybody will cry when they die.
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Where the Rock*A*Teens played an artful, echo-laden take on rockabilly, Tenement Halls takes traditional pop and plays it through a murky wall of sound.
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Sounds a lot like a stately, plump version of The Rock*A*Teens.
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Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells is the 2005 American indie rock equivalent of the kind of records the Kinks were making in the Village Green era: parochial, intimate, painfully literate, and pretty close to brilliant.