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Maybe they’re not fun like Oreo Fun Stix, but The Black Tales are a fun rock band. Sometimes they sound ’80s, like on “Everyone Smiles.” Other times they sound ’90s, like on “Cyber Suicide.” They never sound too modern though.
The music evokes the house band at a bar, if only they’d stop playing covers and started playing their own stuff. Well, that’s what you get here. Picnic had this problem, of course. People would only listen to them when they were playing covers, but they were good at making their own music too.
“Mr. Right Now” sounds like a Pat Benatar song. It even has a rockin’ guitar solo. And it’s all in 3:15. These bands tend to specialize in six-minute songs, but here they’re almost manufactured to be about three minutes each.
“Boys Underwear” is missing something, but I’m not sure what. Perhaps it is an apostrophe.
This album is fine. It is not inspiring, but it doesn’t suck either. Nothing about it stands out.

Posted by Joel Edelman on July 13, 2009 at 9:38 pm
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