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Title: close, but not close enough
Review: It's not that Suicide is a bad album, because it isn't. But it's not a good album either. It's angry ("You're an idiot," repeated over & over in Dear Customer; "East/West is the enemy," likewise chanted in the song named for that line) but that's about it. The songwriting is not as strong as on Superfriends and the creativity of their first album (Sweet Water) is missing huge chunks. It's almost as if Sweet Water has decided to become a punk band and let things like playing and songwriting fall by the wayside. Had Suicide been their second album, you would have heard critics everywhere talking about the sophomore slump; unfortunately this third album from Sweet Water fulfills that prophecy, just a bit late.
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