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3.0 out of 5 stars
An uneven album, December 7, 2001
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This review is from: Far From the Sun (Audio CD)
while the first track is one of my favorite songs, ever... it is difficult to recommend this album in its entirety. Cakekitchen are not revolutionary, they just drone rock touching things into your heart. i come away from his recordings feeling that graeme jeffries is a close and dear friend.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Acceptable, but nothing astonishing, August 27, 2005
This review is from: Far From the Sun (Audio CD)
I have to agree with the other reviewer--three stars for an album that's acceptable by Peter Jefferies' standards, but too many of the songs amble by when they should've swaggered. It's pleasant enough background music, but compared to his "Devil & The Deep Blue Sea," this is standard stuff for completists (like me) and fans (like you?).
It has more of the mid-tempo Flying Nun sound of the later 80s/early 90s period as the label's bands began appearing on American college radio and on British stages, and while it is consistent, perhaps to a fault, I feel it tries too effectively to sound like the NZ scene of the time rather than promoting its maker's (it's pretty much Jefferies in charge as always) more ambitious mix of assault and caress that makes his best work so affecting.
(My corgi puppy ate part of the cover and the plastic shell of this as I was playing the disc. This may be his own attempt to rate the CD on Amazon, as his thick paws make it difficult to type without my assistance as he dictates to me his reactions.)
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