Title: Yuck
Product review: As a big Hot Water Music fan, this album proved a huge dissapointment. Essentially, it is Hot Water Music without any of the roughness, fury, or unexpected hooks that made them such a powerful group. It's polished up, almost radio-friendly emo-rock that goes for the easy, predictable hooks every time and still ends up missing about half as often. There's an almost palpable effort to smooth out the vocals to the greatest extent possible, and the music itself, while reasonably technically proficient, simply sounds generic - a hollow shell of what was formerly a pretty great rock band. These punks have not aged gracefully.
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