RAY CHARLES KINDA PARTY
The Dinner Is Ruined (Sonic Unyon)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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People who don't get press kits with CDs are lucky. For some stupid reason, I always end up reading the things, and end up utterly confused, trying to find meaning and substance in things that really, honestly, are just not there. A good example of this is this album, which, to a listener who hasn't read the press kit, sounds a lot like the Frogs trying to be a noisy, feedback-filled Rolling Stones-meets-Shockabilly-type bar band. However, after reading a press kit claiming the band is actually covering songs by "Torontian Kyp Harness and blues legend Ma Rainey" with "tales of death, corruption, and lust", I found myself straining to catch the lyrics to "Shave 'em Dry Blues" and "Fertilizer," trying to find the tragic link to the epic the album is supposed to tell. It's not here! Or I'm too stupid to get "it," which is highly possible.

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