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So about that title. Hair: Jone Stebbins tours
with her styling scissors. TV: Roddy Bottum scored the defunct ABC
series Help Me Help You. Baby: Lynn Truell, nee Perko, is pregnant in
her booklet photo. Which leaves Will Schwartz as the band, still
harboring dreams that these veteran art-pop up-and-comers will someday
be remunerative as well as catchy. Catchy they remain on their belated
fourth album -- also bright, dynamic, tender, brainy, unpretentious and
civilly pansexual. But after barely playing out in five years, are they
a band on the strength of a written-from-memory title tune about
touring's frantic rush? Or of "Room With a View," about a rehearsal
space where you can pretend you're "twenty for life"? Or of "Fallen
Idol," in which Schwartz complains or admits, "Since I've gone
solo/We've hit a new low"? That low is pretty high. But nobody can
pretend to be twenty forever.
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Track List
- Everything
- Do It Better
- Shim Sham
- Baby and the Band
- One Two
- Room With a View
- It's Now
- Fallen Idol
- Sweet Potato
- Everyone Wants to Know
- 21st Century
- What You Do
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