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Citizen Cope
Dreamworks
Artist: Citizen Cope
Title: Citizen Cope
Label: Dreamworks (www.dreamworks.com)
Format: CD, 55 minutes
I think I liked the first three seconds of this, up until the point when it
stopped being a cool ascension of droney noise and turned into some weird
combination of Lenny Kravitz-style rock and adult contemporary hip-hop. Too
much love! Too much sappiness! The instrumental bits are so cloying and
predictable that it's absolutely transcendent, or at least it transcends the
listener to a world of awkward high school slow dances and spinning mirror
globes. Perhaps it's the excessive use of that tinkly bell sound effect that
pervaded so much soft rock in the '80s, or maybe it's just the repeated use
of the words "Come on, come on" and repetitive voice samples loops that does
this album in for me--whatever it is, I couldn't wait to get this one out of
the CD player and pop something else in.
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