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Title: lavish packaging, mediocre music...
Review: Ahh, the wonderfully weird Residents. First of all, I couldn't be happier that this group continues to anonymously weave their tangled web of sonic strangeness... but let's be honest, most of their material from the past 10 years is awfully unmemorable... Take the lavishly packaged Animal Lover -- lots of odd, bleak synthesizers and strange voices... a pointless "remix disc" (I guess?) with more of the same... very disturbing (and not in a good way) computer generated artwork in the booklet... It's sadly starting to seem like God in Three Persons from 1988 will stand as the last Residents masterwork... I sincerely hope not, though... maybe they should lose the computers and samplers and try an acoustic album next for a change of pace... I'd love to re-Meet The Residents I once knew and loved so long ago...
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