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Destination 2000

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It's not easy to categorize what I think are the influences on "Destination 2000," but on the best tracks here the band reminds me a great deal of Television (and that is a good thing) with some touches of Ten Years After and lots of indie bands thrown in.

Sometimes Love as Laughter seems to be playing against convention just for the sake of seeing what sort of sounds it can crank out, but mostly the band delivers through sheer energy and innovation.

I hope to hear more from this outfit.

'Rockin' pneumonia' like chuck berry said.

Love As Laughter's (LAL) most popular record has a way of making you forget underproduction. Great songs, all of which have a cheap-production tinny sound, that roll you straight through without a break. No hear attacks to be had, but blown minds are on the way. Catchy and poppy (on some tracks) have you humming tunes all day, while grungy and distorted have you rocking out at the time. definitely worth the try for Modest Mouse fans, for anyone trying to find influences for today's New York garage-rock scene, and anyone...anyone at all who is interested in owning a must-have album to stretch your musical vocabulary one stretch further.

With the third LAL release, Sam Jayne finally taps into the energy reserve accumulated during the band's previous testosterone-deficient outings and the discombobulated musings of his earlier rock-oriented outfit, Lync. Destination 2000's first four tracks deserve Robin Williams-billing on the "Give Guitars a Chance This Millennium" mixtape, especially the scorching "Stay Out of Jail" and parkway-mower anthem "Margaritas."