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Review title: Stop looking for songs
Product review: Catchy songs are just that--they catch you, pull you in, then then when they are finished with you, they leave. True artistry may be found in catchy songs (see "Schizophrenia"), but look deeper and longer on NYC Ghosts & Flowers. Give this disc time, thought, and energy, and you will not be disappointed. The negative reviews are predictable--usually written soon after the disc's release, after only a handful of listens. Give this time, particularly on Lee's brilliant title track, which ranks up there with the best SY has ever recorded. Granted, Thurston's overly dramatic vocals on the coda of "Small Flowers Crack Concrete" borders on embarassing, but the remainder of the work makes up for this momentary lapse. Stop looking for rock songs and just let the noise swirl in your head. Goodbye 20th Century? Perhaps, but NCY G&F seems more like goodbye SY-RockBand--and that's a good thing.
