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The Get Up Kids know from heartbreak. On the emo kingpins' previous album, 2002's On a Wire, they managed to communicate real anguish with their quiet tunefulness, especially on "Campfire Kansas" and the meditative "Overdue." Guilt Show is a retreat to the group's punkier past. On "How Long Is Too Long" and "Martyr Me," singer Matt Pryor pleads and sneers as the band builds crisp, charged grooves behind him. It's all a bit scattered, though; the Get Up Kids channel Blink-182 one minute ("Man of Conviction") and Billy Joel the next ("In Your Sea"). And lyrically, despite a few gems ("Never Be Alone"), on tracks such as "Martyr Me," Pryor delivers wounded-boy bromides that are so shopworn, they sound indifferent.
JON CARAMANICA
(RS 944, March 18, 2004)
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Track List
- Man Of Conviction
- The One You Want
- Never Be Alone
- Wouldn't Believe It
- Holy Roman
- Martyr Me
- How Long Is Too Long
- Sick In Her Skin
- In Your Sea
- Sympathy
- The Dark Night Of The Soul
- Is There A Way Out
- Conversation
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