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THE BRUNETTES

Rating: NN


The Brunettes are too cute for their own good. This slick-sounding album has all the requisite cool pop references, but ultimately they’re just references, and the lyrical fluff of nudge-nudge, wink-wink music geek jokes doesn’t do much to give it depth.

It was probably their intent to make a pop album about pop, and certain listeners will love it for that, but it’s questionable whether they’ll still find song titles like Obligatory Road Song clever in a couple of years.

The record does sound great, though, and there are some reasonably good hooks. It’s the lack of emotion that ruins it it’s a pretty record, but it’s also pretty vacant. The title describes it perfectly – structure and cosmetics, and not much more.

The Brunettes play the Horseshoe Friday (September 28).

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