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 | | I guess they're something of an acquired taste, but this is nonetheless a welcome return from one of the '80s great bands, the Violent Femmes dragging those long-term memories back into the short-term with such vitality you wonder if they've just been practising all this time. |
 | | Gano's lyrics are as dryly witty, overtly sexy, subconsciously bizarre as ever, and either sneeringly spat out on the noisy fast ones, or delicately curled with a regretful yet ever-hopeful whine over the pretty slow ones. |
 | | These latter, the almost-love songs "All I Want" and "When You Died", are often quite beautiful, in a girl-next-door sense, providing perfect momentary respite from the energy rush of "Sleepwalkin'", "Freak Magnet", and the aptly-named "Mosh Pit". |
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