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Title: Very pleasantly surprised...
Review: I like the Steve Shelley-like drums kicking the simple, looping grunge riff in track 1. "Devotion" is a dreary, melancholy dirge with some creepy theremin (???) emoting going on that can just about drive you to the prozac. The groove in the verse of "Chupacabra" is almost impossible to describe in its Beefheartian stagger. Try to dance to that one. Very hot-on-the-midrange production with horns, theremin, and lots of loud main instruments; you can tell that the band is angry at modern alt-rock and probably has issues with many of the underground posers as well. I'd bet my van that they REALLY dig old Minutemen records. "Cup of Sunshine" is their pop song but it's just so unmanufactured in its performance and instrumentation that I can excuse it this time and, actually, it's now probably my favorite on the cd. Are they still around?
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