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Title: "Picaresque" It Certainly Is; Picturesque too, But Good is Another Matter
Review: What's most annoying about this CD? I can hardly decide. Maybe that it's a bunch of Portland people pretending they're Steeleye Span or Fairport Convention? Or the fact that rock opera has been going straight downhill from Tommy and this one (though to be fair it doesn't bill itself so grandly) does nothing to stop the slide? Or that the lead singer and writer's voice grates on me like fingernails across a blackboard? Whatever, while the raves for it are very plentiful here, I have to dissent and say these folks are melodramatic and decidedly mediocre. I had to immediately put Surrealistic Pillow on the CD player to get rid of the bad aural taste.
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