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The resulting album is very much of the Hovercraft-Polara-27 Various family (Hurley even revives one song, "Has Been", from Hovercraft's Been Brained EP). Ackerson and Hurley's forte is in taking sweet pop songs in the vein of Big Star, Game Theory, the dBs, Let's Active and perhaps the Posies and early REM, and setting them in thick, hissing sonic settings whose constructed and sinister syntheticness and bristling disharmonic experimentation is as unlike Mitch Easter's trademark transparent, jangly south-eastern production style as Minneapolis is unlike Athens. This leaves many of these songs sounding a lot like somebody patched sawtooth filters into every channel of what would have resembled a Velvet Crush or Matthew Sweet song, and then fiddled with them until the output bus began to show signs of Chameleons and Guided by Voices fans having fought an indecisive battle over its proper production aesthetic. Depending on your tolerance for fractured perspective, then, this album may strike you as good material irrevocably ruined in the mix.
CONDITION: USED LIKE NEW! MINT CONDITION NEVER PLAYED!
TRACK LISTINGS
1. The Principal
2. Barry Um
3. Siphon
4. High
5. Has Been
6. Chunk of Sad
7. Seven Down
8. Hibernation
9. Straws of Glass
10. Buyer's Market
11. Alleyway
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