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Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
| Avclub |
| Six albums and 12 years after Alkaline Trio formed in suburban Chicago, it seems a little late in the game for the group to jump to a major label. Roughly seven years have passed since From Here To Infirmary made the group one of Vagrant Records' many next big things (along with Dashboard Confessional, Saves The Day, and The Get Up Kids). After Vagrant released 2005's excellent Crimson, the Trio moved to V2 Records, which promptly went out of business....full text |
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| Nytimes |
| “Gone With the Wind” is the sort of song you would expect from someone who lives a very public life in the tabloids but still plays a wide-eyed high school student on the Disney Channel. A gently aching piano-soul number with echoes of Alicia Keys, it’s the best vocal performance on “Identified,” the second album from Vanessa Hudgens, a star of the “High School Musical” franchise. “I don’t care what anybody thinks/I’ve released that fear,” Ms. Hudgens sings about the end of a traumatic relationship or, lyrical ambiguity being a coming-of-age hallmark, the transition from child star to adult maybe-star. “I don’t have to be what you want me to be/Because every time I try to fit in/It feels like I’m in a prison.”...full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Major-label debuts from punk bands usually all follow the same route, and end up sounding polished and produced. But with Alkaline Trio six full-lengths into their career, it could be assumed that they would be immune to any sort of big sound alteration on Agony & Irony, their first offering for Epic. Besides, Alkaline Trio already polished things up a few albums ago -- the raw, drunken rants of their past didn't make it very far past Asian Man Records. So the fact that Agony & Irony is overall a moderately paced affair featuring songs more pop/rock than pop-punk isn't such a surprise; it's simply a logical progression from Crimson....full text |
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