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Title: Sophomore jinx!!
Review: Disappointing follow-up to their amazing first album. The tracks are full of energy and have the same basic 'sound' of their first album but lack the same inspiration and direction. The quality of the song craftsmanship has diminished while the over-glossy production quality goes up a notch. A few songs flirt with 70s disco and are fairly nauseating, and a few uninspired 'rock' songs feature a ridiculously bad vocalist (and equally sappy lyrics). One or two tracks are very good but most are simply adequate, but there's really nothing here that makes you stand back and take notice. The first album was great because of all of the unexpected twists and turns it took, this one fails because it lacks dynamics, takes few chances and settles on being safe and overly repetitious.
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