It’s not an experience I can see catching on, but neither is it one I regret…
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Katherine St Asaph: Laura Marling sure knows when to dump ’em.
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Jonathan Bogart: Oh, snap. What a marvelous, precisely savage satire of the Tom Petty through Jimmy Buffett wing of self-satisfied white-people-problems lounge-rock. Wait a second. Oh, dear. They’re not being satirical, are they?
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Martin Skidmore: Dead-voiced indie folk must be among my least favourite things. Even if I like the arrangement a bit better than trad indie, the utterly dull singing of lines about life going on and having heart and the like totally kills any potential enjoyment.
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Jer Fairall: There’s an interesting story lurking around here somewhere, if not in the barmaid cliche, than possibly in the failed artist whose “best work was his letters home”, but it’s hard to work up much enthusiasm when the singer himself sounds so bored.
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David Moore: Somewhere between Jeffrey Lewis and the Polyphonic Spree (with a glob of whatever comes out when you put Tom Petty in the photocopier), Noah and the Whale manage to annoy me with their phony ennui and their phony cheerfulness. The title doesn’t even work as a spell-it-out chorus, and if they don’t care about meter they might as well have been totally shameless and just called it “I.T.G.E.T.S.B.E.T.T.E.R.”
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Josh Love: Sounds like a lost one-hit wonder from the hellish days when twits like The Rembrandts and Deep Blue Something were selling records. I can’t fathom the fact that Laura Marling used to be associated with these pansies. And people just love spelling along to songs, so I could see this abomination getting kinda huge. Blech.
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Alex Ostroff: M.I.C.K.E.Y.M.O.U.S.E. (in both melody and sentiment)
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Edward Okulicz: Man, these guys are lucky that “N” sort of rhymes with so many words. Us? Not so much.
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Zach Lyon: Created expressly for the soundtrack of a generic indie movie from 2006 that wouldn’t use it anyway. I don’t understand how someone can write this and feel like they’ve contributed something to the world.
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Michaelangelo Matos: When I have kids, I imagine I’ll have to hear stuff like this all the damn time, huh?
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