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| | village voice > music > Here Comes a Regular by Michaelangelo Matos |
 | | God Loves Ugly is more immediately monochromatic, but give the album some time and you'll hear Ant rough his sound up without losing his style. |
 | | On God Loves Ugly, though, Slug's tough-guy moves sound as pained as De La Soul Is Dead's: Sure, he can too throw down like that, and he's not bad at it, either. |
 | | God Loves Ugly, on the other hand, feels like hip-hop: the brusque party cuts, the embattled, puffed-up defensiveness, the slightly stagy sense that Slug's soul-baring tendencies have taken on now that he's gotten our attention without having to fight quite so hard for it. |
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