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Per Second is the perfect combination of mainstream and alternative in one handy package.
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"Per Second..." finds Wheat in the midst of an identity crisis, attempting to balance largely superb songs with an exasperating presentation.
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BlenderWheat adopt a new, far breezier musical style for their first release since 1999. [#23, p.112]
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MagnetThe first Wheat album that'll make you cringe through four or five listens before you can tolerate its artificial sweetness. [#61, p.111]
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Both accessible and fun.
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The band seems to be making a conscious effort to alienate its old fan base.
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In many ways, the Cambridge, MA, trio is like a Toad the Wet Sprocket for the 21st century.
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If you could imagine a cross between Wilco and Flaming Lips with just about everything challenging and interesting sucked out of it, it might sound something like this.
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If you don't know, or can look beyond, the staggering U-turn it represents, then Per Second is an amiable time investment for a top-down cruising summer afternoon. If you're hungry for weightier fare, however, you'd be best served by digging deeper into the band's catalog.
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There are moments when the band struggles to mitigate the mainstream impulses with the old indie ones.
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Thankfully, the band is up to the challenge of turning up the spotlights and the volume, and they crank out a solid batch of insanely catchy, pristine pop songs that'll crawl inside your brain and die there, only to come back and haunt you at the oddest times.
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MartinFOct 1, 2004