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| 2.5 average | TheManMachine | March 11th 16 |
Complaints concerning the overt corniness, justifiable as they may be, seem like targets too easy -- though he certainly has it comin' what with the ah-fuck-it zoological thematics and boom-shocka-locks and unrestrained use of exclamation points and cupcake-citing and his entire selfhood in general, it's egregious enough to assume there's at least a mondo quantity of self-awareness at hand to back it up. You don't just pen a tune like "Girls Love Shoes" in 2016 or rhyme 'monkey' with 'donkey' in the first stanza without claspin' some serious tongue-in-cheek tendencies, right? Besides, the contrast of panicked screams-n-chatter with a mild-mannered sugar-hook is a-ok in my book, faceless studio-female voice-appendages provide a generic yet essential foil, and once the perpetual gag that is this album's first half has passed, far more endurable legitimacies are the norm: "Magic Summertime" is actually a bit magical, "Picnic" a mild lovey-dovey pleasure, "Song For Nancy" on auto-pilot ride-out from the get-go but a rather rational and touching instrumental. Then again, anything can seem sensible after good-time peacockery and zebra-saddle yearning I s'pose.
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