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| 2.0 poor | Bedex | August 8th 20 |
Yeah I frankly do not get what's appealing in this. Sounding like you're from the 80's
doesn't automatically make the music interesting? This is like, one synth line, his
singing, and then pretty much nothing else, rinse and repeat. The tracks are incredibly
flat. 6 and 8 do have some cool synths coming in near the end I guess. 4 was perhaps my
least fave, and 5 was my favourite because it feels a little less plain and flavourless,
but overall I still found this aggressively boring sorry boys. 2.1
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| 3.2 good | Erwann S. STAFF | April 19th 19 |
Feels like a preparation for his next record. Good, but it's less addictive than Forced Witness.
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| 4.0 excellent | TheManMachine | December 17th 16 |
My favorites of these vignettes about failures are the most apparent ones: the drunkest/ugliest girl and dumbest/richest guy at the bar who consciously leave their kid in the car and are all outta cash-n-credit respectively, the washed up bout-to-be ex-TV host who's got his lawyer staying up at the Ritz to fight back against his replacement ("some fat fuck crying with a song about di-o-beet-us"), the guy whose new life on The Internet procures him receptionists and business cards and the appellation known as "The Man". Elsewhere jobs are lost/parent's homes are moved back into, business needs taking care of, vitals enter vials -- and gluing it all together is a baritone sleaze that straddles sincere+satirical to a T and elementary keyb-beats with contorted bits all the way. Which on the whole screams blunter+scummier Stephin Merritt aesthetically and now-n-again a harebrained Bruce Springsteen circa 'Tunnel of Love' anthemically. But doing alot with a little, composed+concise anecdotes, dipping into a bit-o-drama and good ol repetition; it reads more like Newman-meets-Eno. Neither of whom I'd bet could pen a tune about making it on the world wide web this aching and accurate.
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| 4.0 excellent | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | January 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | TMTrates | February 24th 21 |
| 3.5 great | peahat | December 15th 19 |
| 3.5 great | wg98 | October 5th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | doqtor | November 12th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Brandon | September 16th 17 |
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