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| | The Vines: Highly Evolved [2002] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review |
 | | That's a subject for another time, but the fact remains that the Vines, despite being the latest to be saddled with the impossible-to-live-up-to-label, are not the "saviors of rock." Which is not to say that Highly Evolved, the L.A.-by-way-of-Australia quartet's debut album, isn't a solid and promising piece of work. |
 | | Of course, those parts are all to be found in the minute-and-a-half title track, a short, sharp shock of unruly moptop melodicism and grungy, abrasive vocals. |
 | | "Highly Evolved" is an energizing, exciting burst, and it's the high point of Highly Evolved. |
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