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21 TANDEM REPEATS
Never Wanted to Be Anyone (Canadalynx)... **** should be (Canada Lynx Records)

Super Robertson, who leads this band and has a regular Wednesday Night at the Railway Club, might be the weakest element of this record. He's not a great singer, which perhaps is why his voice is down in the mix, yet it has character.
Presumably, Robertson also is the main writer and at this he's not great either, yet this second album has charm. It's long on atmosphere, even vaguely psychedelic, making it easy to get caught up in it's swirling patterns, but the album could use more real songs such as the title track or "Failure" to seem more than a wank. C
- Tom Harrison


What would be the quotes

21 Tandem Repeats "Never Wanted to Be Anyone"

"has character"

Tom Harrison Vancouver Province

or

21 Tandem Repeats "Never Wanted to Be Anyone"

"this album has charm"

Tom Harrison Vancouver Province

or

21 Tandem Repeats "Never Wanted to Be Anyone"

"long on atmosphere, even vaguely psychedelic"

Tom Harrison Vancouver Province

or

21 Tandem Repeats "Never Wanted to Be Anyone"

"real songs such as the title track or "Failure""

Tom Harrison Vancouver Province

I guess then name of the game is to take a bloodbath and make it look like a rose garden... That's where the money is in high level BS.

I had some reservations about posting this on the blog... The most obvious being the savage beating that I personally took... One would think that you would let that kind of blow over and hope nobody caught it. Well in some ways it's good to analyze things. I disagree with some of the reviewers points outright, but I also see a few things that were done that would lead a writer to those conclusions if the music wasn't their bag. In some ways I am pleasantly pleased that the album was disliked by a modern rock critic... That dislike may prove to serve us well. Mostly I can't be upset because the CD got reviewed. As a matter of fact the CD I did before this one SUPERSIMIAN "How the tiger got Lionized", got reviewed by the same Tom Harrison who liked it and commented on the great writing. To me it's just great to get reviewed in with a pile of other REAL bands... you know what i mean