This album sounds like Todd Rundgren & John Lennon.Good!
author: piston
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Perfect!
author: A Perry
Yes, perfect. This is a perfect pop album. And I mean that in a good way. "Blackberry Plain" and "Masterpiece" are my personal favorites, but every song shines and every song sticks. Great!
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author: CD Baby
An album that made me darn near speechless for at least an hour afterwards. In the aural genetics and musical lineage that has followed the Beatles- and has not always been ultimately "inspired," with a kind of shellacked gloss- comes an album that harnesses the jangle, the substance and the personality that makes high quality "Beatles pop" so luscious without being carbon-copied and while adding in its own, unique incarnation of musical vision. A real ride for the Elvis Costello fan as well, this is one you don't want to click past without hearing first. Let your ears be your guide, my friends.
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in a word: HOOKS
author: Bruce Lomet (CHINASKI)
Darin has crafted the consummate "hooks" album. Song after song crackles with the "pop" intensity and musical vocabulary of the rock greats of years past. If you're looking for that "special something" that's missing from today's rock - "Haunted Gardenias" has what you're looking for.
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