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| | Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) |
 | | For their second album, Recovering the Satellites [+], Counting Crows [+] crafted a self-consciously challenging response to their unexpected success. |
 | | Similarly, the music is slightly more somber, yet the approach is harder and more direct, which gives even the ballads a more affecting, visceral feel. |
 | | Recovering the Satellites [+] occasionally bogs down in its own pretention -- for a roots-rock band, the group certainly has a lot of artsy goals -- yet when they scale back their ambitions to simple folk-rock, such as on the single "A Long December," they are at their most articulate. |
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