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Title: Fans Only
Review: In 2001, Adams released Gold, a great alt-country record that balanced those two usually paradoxical genres of music and conjured beautiful images of being young and heartbreakingly in love. This year it feels like he's lost a little energy.Although tracks like (Track 2) and "Cry on Demand" are great songs, most of the rest of the album seems to be lacking some of the spunk that made Gold sound and feel so wide open and fun. Most of the tracks here suffer from too much mope. Take (Track 7) for instance which sounds like a horrible country B-side from Pablo Honey. Don't even get me started on (Track 13), five minutes of needless guitar dissonance and incoherent mumbling.The album is entitled Demolition, meaning that songs are meant to be taken as demos. I'm not sure what they would have sounded like "finished", but chances are that it would have been more enjoyable. For fans only.
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