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| | Mayday: Bushido Karaoke - PopMatters Music Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | However, despite extensive differences in style, the musicians involved in the scene shared some common qualities, plying their trade in distinctly American styles of music -- be it folk, bluegrass, or country -- and infusing their songs with a sense of urgency and passion that had long been absent from the pop radar. |
 | | Mayday's cast consists of the usual suspects (containing many members of the original Lullaby lineup and some old Omaha / Saddle Creek peers), and their MO remains the same, providing a discolored Polaroid snapshot of rust-soaked Americana for Stevens' nearly paranoiac ruminations on isolation, desperation, and loss. |
 | | It is at once lovely and strangely discomfiting, a moving musical document evocative of blood, tears, and a startling sense of subdued beauty. |
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