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They're of the light-hearted Punk variety with
Pop overtones and a linear effervescence more associated with
the million sellers like a Greenday or Blink 182. The tunes come
at ya in a first person narrative that doesn't fall over its own
self-pity, which in itself is refreshing, yet not that we
couldn't find it in our hearts should it be known the influence
for a "Lezbian Girlfriends" or something like
"How To Be An Idiot" were grounded in reality.
Yeah Kansas, Lawrence to be exact, noteworthy considering no
one we've heard of seems to come from there, well maybe it's an
Easterner's misgiving but what else we're getting with MI6 is
that grown up, wholesome, Midwestern value applied to a craft
usually reserved for street kid stress busters with profound
noise-making ability.
Here, think in terms of Three Doors Down with a quicker
wrist. "Lunchbox," featuring a savory selection of
enhanced CD contents, satisfies the hunger for playful, catchy,
Modern Rock impulse, consistent, and sometimes overly so, the
rhythm lines something of an aural clothesline where you're
waiting for a little more of a twist, turn, or knot. Someplace,
however with the two guitarists, they do some tricky little
harmonic parts that nearly suggest technical complexity could
exist should they'd chosen to take the route. Such as we're
getting, the music's good, easy to absorb, those backing
choruses chiming in at every moment, no verse safe, like any
good '80s Post-Mod Costello, Jackson, and Split Enz, which take
it or leave it, they belong in there somewhere.
Hey we had the MC5 at one time, so why not the
MI6? There's only four of 'em, but they play good enough to make
you think there's two more of them in there somewhere.
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| Artist |
Mi6 |
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Lunchbox |
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Kung Fu
Records |
| Reviewer |
Vinnie
Apicella |
| Rating |
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Mi6
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