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 | | Nicotine's English lyrics are as charmingly nonidiomatic as ever ("You're one of the suspects on the day/We need a rescue for all the prey," etc.), but their big, hooky chord progressions are pitch-perfect and their harmonies soar joyfully over a solid wall of heavyweight guitar noise. |
 | | But you'd have to be a real curmudgeon not to get a kick out of this album as it is. Highlights include the album-opening "Perfect Crime" and "Get the Liberty," a probably unintentionally funny song about eternity, fun, war, and adolescent striving. |
 | | Nicotine's ska influences have receded almost to the point of invisibility; only the brief, skanking bridge on "Dream of Summer Days" betrays any lingering aftereffects of the band's early ska roots, and that's too bad -- a more ska-oriented album from these guys would be lots of fun. |
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