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Relient K

Five Score And Seven Years Ago  Hear it Now

RS: 2.5of 5 Stars

2007

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Relient K are Ohio guys making big, sweetly melodic pop punk with religious inclinations that are rarely overbearing (for one, they almost never invoke the J Man's name). They're also kind of bland. Their fifth album has some bright winners, like the bouncy "Faking My Own Suicide" and "The Best Thing," which sounds sort of like Death Cab for Cutie covering Blink-182. But elsewhere you get songs such as "Devastation and Reform," reminiscent of a gazillion other pop-punk bands, and there are a handful of full-on cheese-outs, like the insipid "Give Until There's Nothing Left." The punk of choice for high schoolers who find tats scary.

CHRISTIAN HOARD

(Posted: Mar 20, 2007)

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