THE OPERATORS
Citizens Band (Unstoppable)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Hoppy and boppy and way too talky, with lots of lecturing and screaming about drinking and optimism and how deluded people are to sell out and grow up, with chick vocalists obviously heavily influenced by Sleater-Kinney and other Kill Rock Stars bands. These kids think they're just so damned smart, and I don't like that. There are liner notes in Cyrillic, which I don't read, a tricky little coding system apparently telling what band member played what instrument - I didn't feel like spending the time to sit and puzzle my way through that mess - and then there's the music itself. I was promised there was an accordion on this, dammit, but found my enthusiasm quickly waning while wading through the piles of guitar noodling and screaming to get to it.

[Pick this up at the-operators.com.]

© 2002 - Holly Day