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| Album Rating: B+ |
Ah, Brenden Kelly and friends, we meet again. Of course, The Lawrence Arms are hardly just a one-man endeavor, with Chris McCaughan and Neil Hennessey always bringing something interesting to the table. But Kelly’s daily
intellectual dick joke musings,
oddly perceptive interview questions and general tendency to not overemphasize his self-perceived, debatably esoteric art (
flicker much?) has always been the most memorable and equally approachable in my book. Now, seven years after the return-to-form
Oh! Calcutta!, our favorite drunken Chicago litterateurs have surfaced once again, this time around returning to an even older form with
Metropole (recalling one of
the greatest punk stories ever told), and though it’s a short sonic moment, there’s a lot worth retelling.
