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Review title: Good music marred by bad production and iffy lyrics
Product review: *Give Up* is very appealing the first few times one listens to it. Much of the music is pretty good, but the album suffers from uneven lyrics, uninspired instrumentals and bad mastering.Ben Gibbard's lyrics sometimes work very well, but frequently make me wince:"I'm feeling green / like teenage lovers between the sheets.""Nothing Better," starts with a neat line but then turns into a silly emo mess. The vocals are a kind of annoying whiney monotone and have a emotionally vacant quality that matches the cheap synths a bit too well.The most serious problem with this album is the production. The tracks are insanely overcompressed, and there is almost no dynamic range or variation in the instrument levels. The sound has no presence and the Game Boy/Casio keyboard synth loops get very old very fast.
