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Title: quirky erratic tinglings
Review: Very strange songwriting, to be sure. It has that kind of elusiveness, where you like it, and then again, not really, but then you know there's something there, and by the time you're on your 3rd listen, you're hooked. Same thing with the Smiths and Robyn Hitchcock, but this album is, I feel, a little better than all of that. ha! Wonderfully arranged song structures that have the perfected craftsmanship I-know-what-goes-where of the Beach Boys and the Beatles without being overly casual as Guided by Voices are. Kind of like the perfect balance between the perfectionistic virtues of a classical Chinese poet and the prolific brilliance of Shakespeare. But this isn't exactly a pop album of those sorts, it's just.. something of its own, just as Pipers..Dawn was. Incredible.
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