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This album could fit well into the playlists of any modern-rock
station, but that shouldn't be read with the usual sort of contemptuous
disgust I hold for the genre. I draws from the things a
lot of the modern rock bands did well, and puts its own spin on
it. So, just because they occasionally sound like Stabbing
Westward doesn't necessarily mean they suck like them. By
the time tracks 13 and 14 roll around, The Nominovore is
sounding significantly far removed from Guano Apes, et
al. "Marjaba" and "The Nominovore" are listed
as separate songs, but unless you were watching the track counter
flip, you'd never know it. Cleary inspired by middle-eastern music
(with the faintest hint of 311), this is the pithy, trippy
apex of the album. The last track, an ethereal chant, is a tranquil
and beautiful coda which makes me wonder: why all the poppy nonsense
preceding this? Sure, it was well executed but why dilute your
counter-culture message with mass-market packaging? Are they creating
a musical Trojan Horse?
-JD
Track Listing:
1. Underwater Aquatic Environment
2. Ubahvision
3. 21st Century Stigmata
4. Chembe
5. Bring Hell
6. Like Hate
7. The Happening
8. Locomo
9. Woe
10. Thenuic
11. Jabbywalk
12. We
13. Marjaba
14. The Nominovore
15. Pro World Peace African Love Song
16. T.W.O.T.C.O.G
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