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| | The Blood Brothers: Young Machetes: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | When we last left our heroes, the Blood Brothers were poised on the brink of success, torn between unpredictable hardcore stylings and a more melodic, less tortured application of their squealy double-frontman lineup, as best exemplified by "Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck". |
 | | Young Machetes is half metal band, half high-school musical, with unpredictable transitions, two-minute songs stretched to the limit of composition, and a few pop concessions that pale in comparison to the softer side of Crimes, bones tossed to a mainstream audience by a band that's far too strange to be this famous. |
 | | It's not that the band has slowed down or softened, but the songs' shock-value structures often diffuse the album's best moments, and wider sidesteps like "1, 2, 3, 4, Guitars" use a bigger palette to no effect, with a dub-like bassline on which Whitney and Jordan Billie take the mumble train to Pointlessville. |
| www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/38994/The_Blood_Brothers_Young_Machetes (480 words) |
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