Emotional purity in both songwriting and singing is what makes Chinese Boxes such a superb album.
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In the geopolitics of oil, it seems almost anyone is capable of almost anything.
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Godot-style existentialism? Check. Gross-out humor? Check. Irony? Check.
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King Wilkie's "Captivator" is sure to bring a smile to your face. Unless a motorcycle just ran over your foot.
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In which we witness the pressure cooker of twenty-first century teenage life with what feels like scary accuracy.
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A big, cathartic drama, messy with the joy, the mystery, and the love of theater.
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The male psyche is a fragile thing.
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The Stone Coyotes might be making the purest rock of any band working today.
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Pop-oriented arrangements carried the Doors far from their stripped-down, bluesy roots, with some questionable results.
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Never has a humble bologna sandwich channeled more emotion.
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