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In the end, Vessels comes across as a promising guitar-driven breath of fresh air trapped in a box of squeaky-clean studio tricks; what was hopeful is now hopeless, and what seemed like an exciting rock revival is simply a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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BlenderMany songs start out as radio-friendly rockets before shooting off into a disorienting psychedelic haze. [May 2007, p.106]
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Q Magazine[It] mines a similar seam of hard rock to that pursued by countrymen Wolfmother, only without so many Black Sabbath influences. [May 2007, p.129]
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That the songs are essentially interchangeable 8-cylinder rawk is one thing; that they begin to clearly resemble the long-forgotten, acid-coated Eastern-revivalists Kula Shaker is something more distressing altogether.
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There's plenty to miss here if you make the easy, been-there, heard-that dismissals, even if it's still mostly just stoner rock.
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Half great and half pointless.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 0 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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ameliaApr 10, 2007amazing live - two drummers! great band + great album
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JustinSApr 9, 2007Pretty good album, awesome live.
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mfetterMar 7, 2007