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Former Azure Ray member Orenda Fink has done gone and brought together a collective featuring members/former members of collectives such as Mayday, The Good Life, Son, Ambulance and The Anniversary for an eleven-track slice of pop that never really rises above being a mildly interesting collection of tracks that sound like someone spent a little too much time listening to Aimee Mann. The title cut, “Time Gets Us All” and “Our Addictions” rise to occasion of being well-written and thoroughly interesting examples of pop craft but the album’s hind quarter sinks into the waters of sound-alike land to the point that they render the whole of the album unmemorable. Try some red meat, darling. It’ll amp up those creative ambitions. - Jedd Beaudoin (2007, The Daily Copper) |