Comparisons to the Strokes? Well I NEVER!

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Jer Fairall: Yes, the problem with the Strokes is that they never sounded enough like Better Than Ezra.
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Iain Mew: Some acts’ mainstream careers feel like stand-ins for others who opted out of theirs. Owl City for The Postal Service, obviously, but would Gotye and Kimbra be ruling the world in quite such a big way if Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan hadn’t abdicated? Anyway, on the evidence of “Everybody Talks,” there are a lot of people with a gap in their lives because the Strokes didn’t go pop enough for them.
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Brad Shoup: It’s got a keen sense of structure’s possibilities (and the guts to ignore them for a haunted-house interlude). I feel like this would have been killer about 25 years ago, before someone decided to overdose on Strokes-level EQ. Huge props for the “whisper/kissed her/lips hurt” rhyme, as well as a throwback-toned solo (whether it’s recalling the 60s or Springsteen, I can’t say). But I’m praising the details, and I don’t have much left to say about the track. 
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Jonathan Bogart: Oh, it’s “kissed her.” I was wondering why such a desperate-to-be-hip young man was using a word for ass that I always associate with the Catskills in the 1960s. Unfortunately, with “keister” scratched from the lyric sheet, there’s nothing left to hold my interest.
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Anthony Easton: If the half full container of Ativan on my dresser is any indication, the prescription drug is more fun than the illegal, and both cause a logorrheic instinct that any Pentecostal could recognize. Great rev and shatter about half way through.
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Josh Langhoff: They open with a vocal triad only to clear their throat, invoke gossipers and “Mama,” and stop at kissing. These self-consciously retro touches mark them as charming and genteel lovers, maybe so that you, their beloved, will overlook Tyler Glenn’s obvious drug obsession. Would those skanks in the Strokes have expended energy on a creepy-monster interlude worthy of the Buckinghams’ “Susan”? Hmmmm? When they couldn’t even be persuaded to bathe??
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Alfred Soto: if Rolling Stone still did one of those “Rock is BACK!” cover stories, then these spirited young folk would scowl at us from every Barnes & Nobles in the republic. They’d cite Julian Casablancas as an influence.
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