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Title: What happened?
Review: Benson's previous two albums are among my very favorites, but this one--which by the way should not have needed two years to make--is just awful. None of these songs has the appeal of anything on Lapalco, and there are more than a few that outright stink. What happened to Benson's genius for melody and hook? And have I overlooked his overuse of simplistic rhyming couplets before? I mean here everything is truly the moon-june-spoon variety. Once you start paying attention to it it becomes painful to listen to.I suppose it's been the collaborative influences of Jason Falkner on the last two albums that made them so great. It's such a shame, because I'd been looking forward to this for ages.
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