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Title: Repetitive, uninspired, sleep-inducing
Review: Having bought this album on the basis of amazon.com reviews, I have to disagree with all the four-star givers out there. I'm a big fan of Rock, blues and country sounds among others inc. QOTSA but this album is POOR. For a start the songs are boring and uninspired. Jesse Hughes is no Josh Homme in the guitar, vocal or song writing stakes. The same effects are used on most of the tracks and the guitar sounds plastic and flakey. Also, Josh Homme is no Dave Grohl when it comes to hitting a drum kit, the beats are pretty lame. The recording is rushed and unlike certain great albums (like Beck's Mutations) which benefit from this approach, this album sounds like it came from somebody's parents garage. Apologies for being a hater but there are limits to my tolerance for lack-lustre, low-fi, low-effort, non-rock.
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