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| | Rhett Miller / Eef Barzelay | The A.V. Club |
 | | That robs some songs of their immediacy, but his fillips make slighter tracks like "I Believe She's Lying" and "Meteor Shower" sound fuller, and his layers of sound can't muffle the timeless hooks and seamless wordplay of "Help Me, Suzanne," "Fireflies," and the steady-building title track. |
 | | Miller's alt-country contemporary Eef Barzelay takes his own step away from the rock-band format on the solo album Bitter Honey, a set of acoustic songs that don't sound markedly different from his work with Clem Snide, except that they seem to be missing something. |
 | | The songs themselves are fine, bordering on terrificespecially the creepily sensual "Thanksgiving Waves," the friend-skewering "Well," and the brisk love poem "Little Red Dot"but it isn't hard to imagine how much better they'd be had Barzelay called in his bandmates to flesh them out. |
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