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Title: Climb the rope on fire
Review: The passing of Mr. Sandman is made even more sad by the fact that their studio swansong, while it may be the band's most subltle and lowkey album overall, shows no decline in creativity, musicianship or songwriting (the title track, for example, is perhaps the loveliest in the band's entire songbook)...In light of Sandman's untimely death, the element of melancholia which has been an ingredient on all Morphine albums is thrown into sharper relief here. Relatively humorous and /or uptempo numbers like "A Good Woman Is Hard to Find" & "Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer" provide enough levity to keep the album balanced, but few will mistake this for a party album.I don't know (or want to know) if Sandman had intended to close the album with a song titled "Take Me With You When You Go," but it will likely leave many fans with a lump in the throat.
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