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Title: Introjection
Review: I waited quite a long spell for this record to come out and the last few weeks of the wait have brought plenty of new articles, interviews, and reviews to heighten the anticipation. Most of the commentary I've read thus far has been positive, but there are a few spiteful reviews that want to dismiss the latest offering from The Wallflowers as a Tom Petty rip off. To those out there tempted to grab that nonsense and run with it, I want to share a word with you that I just recently learned to appreciate, myself. The full meaning of it hit me when I listened to Breach for the first time. Introjection: absorbing the characteristics of outside objects or persons by the self which then reacts to them as if they were internal. Breach achieves introjection of influences from The Pixies, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and Elvis Costello, to name three, yet the songs are fully Jakob Dylan's own-and that's a good thing, despite what hucksters who seethe for a living would have us believe.
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