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Title: It's be done and far better.
Review: Whenever braindead, propaganda pushers such as NME get on a new artists wagon, you can usually be sure its suspect. (ie The Vines) Jesse Malin is no exception.Former lead man for no name punk band tries his hand at folk cum progressive rock. The result: 13 of the poorest attempts to mimic Springsteen styled rock that you'll here this side of Bob Seger. Malin can't sing and the songs are so generic that even supposed wunderkind Ryan Adams couldn't pull them out of the pedestrian street. Which is a wonder really because mimicry is Ryan's specialty.
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