The second album from these gold-selling Boston guys is as arena-ready as any record you'll hear all year, augmenting Martin Johnson's yearning vocals with gratuitous gloss from hitmaking producers S*A*M and Sluggo. Love Drunk piles on the heart-baring cheese-outs — "Two Is Better Than One" (with Taylor Swift) sounds like a stripped-down version of a Nineties Aerosmith ballad — and brassy rockers like "Real Thing" crib power chords from Nineties butt-rock bands that these guys are too young to remember firsthand. All this new-Benz shininess would get annoying if it weren't for the sugar-shot melodies.
(Posted: Sep 28, 2009)
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- Heart Heart Heartbreak
- Love Drunk
- She's Got A Boyfriend Now
- Two Is Better Than One
- Contagious
- Real Thing
- Someone Like You
- The Shot Heard 'Round The World
- The First One
- Chemicals Collide
- Go
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