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Title: Pretentious,self-involved,artlessly atonal swill.
Review: This is college mope-rock at its absolute worst. Having enjoyed 'Loveless', I was shocked to hear how dry the production is. This is not kind to ANY element of MBV, and shows why Shields dialed up the guitar and swept everything else under the rug on 'Loveless'. An act of sheer necessity. From the milk-carton snare to the absurdly morose vocals of Shields and Butcher, to the droning, insipidly downbeat drivel of the songs themselves, this is bad, bad stuff here, folks. If this was MBV's last record, only the most defiantly non-conformist indie poseur would like this or make the effort to convince themselves they did.
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