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Title: Disappointing at Best
Review: As a long-time Crows fan, I was very disappointed in general by the Hard Candy album. Duritz's sound has definitely turned pop with this record, which is unfortunate coming from one of the best songwriters of this generation. The originality of August and Everything After isn't there, nor is the edgy rock riffs of Recovering the Satellites. Some of their old sound come out in Black and Blue, and Richard Manuel is Dead, but American Girls is so syrupy-sweet it makes your teeth ache. For any Crows fans that jumped on the bandwagon with their third original album, This Desert Life, your money is better spent on one of their first two albums.
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