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An abrasive, tuneful pop-punk-rock collision that works because of the band’s talent and ability.

LN’s latest contains the patented VBM brand of breathy, melancholy love songs.

Mogwai change up their sound a bit with more emphasis on vocals, to excellent results.

It’s this dichotomy between the worldliness and the spirituality in their songs that makes Lift To Experience’s music so interesting to me.

Randy Rose is definitely trying for some edgy, dark sound with this record, but never really reaches it.

This is a soundtrack for outer space, with all of its wonders and terrors.

It sure sounds dreamy and catchy, but its style definitely reigns over its substance.

Moving Pictures is yet another in a long line of pop groups who make music so sweet and catchy that it’s almost sickening.

These guys are obviously talented, too talented to be writing music that is too often bland and un-involving.

I’m sure you’ll find some of these songs play in your finer salons and clothing stores.

Much of the music seems too thickly enshrouded by its sonic fog to hold your interest for very long.

The songs fall in the verse-chorus-verse pattern in its purest and catchiest form.

At times, the album is a beautiful, eerie lullaby only to dissolve into sounds of gloom and despair.

The fact that I received this CD in the mail half an hour ago and I’m already gushing over it should say something for its quality.

The liner says that all of this music was improvisational, and that almost always sets off an alarm in my head.

This would be pretty unlistenable stuff except for the infectious beats and bass that keep your head nodding and your eyes glazed the whole time.

Most of the album makes you realize how cool Tom Jones is in his later years.

The Swells have heart, but they just don’t inject enough of it into their music.

The Missing Brazilians project apparently felt that dub could be even stranger still.

How many times can you listen to airy, jangly pop songs about all-around mopeyness before it all starts to coalesce into one tearjerking mass?