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 | | Strohm's next undertaking, his first solo-billed album, has many of the same players Harris is a member of the Hello Strangers; Childers, Love, and Ackerson are among the guests but heads down a much different path than Velo-Deluxe. |
 | | The fact that more than half the songs are outstanding inventive, wry, smart, memorable doesn't hurt the album, which is an embarrassment of riches and easily one of the most egregiously-overlooked-by-the-mainstream goofs of the '90s. |
 | | After Antenna, Smith took over the bass job in the Indianapolis wing of the Vulgar Boatmen; the elemental intensity of that group's frugal folk-pop strongly informs the Mysteries of Life, the delightful Bloomington group he and cymbal-shy wife Freda Love unveiled in 1995. |
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