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Title: Touching and Heartfelt
Review: To start off, I've been a huge Clash fan since i was like 7. Not only are they one of my favorite bands (up there with the Beatles, Violent Femmes, and non-swing Cherry Poppin' Daddies), they were one of the most intelligent and genre-bending. As everyone knows, they disbanded in the mid-80s, and it's great to see that half of the driving force behind the band hasn't lost his musical prowess. Strummer's new album, while very un-Clash (with the exception of their slower numbers, a la Straight to Hell, et al), is a poignant, subtle album filled with his obvious penchant for electronica (as seen on the Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack). I'm tempted to compare this album to my all time favorite, Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind. Both albums are by men who have experienced quite a full life and may be getting older, but by no means rustier.
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