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Friday, August 13, 2010

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Roddus Album Of The Day


01 - Metropolitan (5:56)
02 - Even Numbers (7:11)
03 - Ghosts for Hire (4:22)
04 - Runway Week (3:50)
05 - Folk Song (6:30)
06 - Unicorns and Chemicals (4:49)
07 - Monks in New Jersey (5:22)
08 - A Black Machine (5:53)
09 - Jumprope In Hell (7:06)

Have had this one on the ipod for about three days now and still haven't really absorbed it. An atmospheric, slow burner of an indie album occasionally reminiscent of Interpol and somewhere referred to as the American Radiohead, which I think is unwarranted. A not unpleasant album, but not something that set the world on fire and is pretty obscure for that reason."Metropolitan" is the strongest track but nothing on here comes near their raw indie classic "Static" which I included on one of my samplers a while back. My rating 2.5/5

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