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Guided By Voices - "Teenage FBI" [mp3] Do the Collapse [Amazon] |
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Do the Collapse is a collection of middling [mediocre; moderately sufficient], unremarkable songs that are, for the most part, bereft [lacking; devoid] of the quirky ingenuity that was once the hallmark of Pollard's work. The album's opener and cornerstone single, "Teenage FBI", suffers not as much from its early Cars organ fills as from its trite [overfamiliar from overexposure] underlying material. Pollard used to write minute-long Who songs; now he's taken to penning three-minute Ramones tunes.
Source: Pitchfork. |
