Lowry: “Awful Joy”

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Detestably contrived psychedelabilly indie-waste slobbering all over its own unfunny hip-hick mock-ambivalence, brought to borderline life by Alexander Lowry's pilfering of whatever un-catchy glop Wilco and Semisonic don't have under lock and key. The results fall flattest when Lowry's old-joke Neil Young/Tom Petty drawl hogs the spotlight, ie most of the time, until he finally begs for inspirational help from Coldplay in "What You Get," earning himself instant bragging rights to the Tao of Bathos. Order at Tower Records

Posted on March 1st, 2006.

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