more songs from the mellow struggle review

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There's just something about fine rock and roll driven by lean guitar licks. The riffage is most fine, but the songs really sing when the lead guitar kicks in.

The album is somewhat made up of interconnected fragments, not unlike Chevy Heston albums. Taken apart, I'm not sure how well Swearing at Motorists would stand up. As a whole, well, it really works.

Almost like an engine that way. Think of each song as an integral system, with the parts of each tune serving as the individual pieces. You have to sit for a couple minutes, letting the ting warm up (there's even an opening theme which serves this purpose nicely), and then everything starts humming along nicely.

The title sorta says it all. This isn't aggro fare, though it certainly doesn't shy away from action, either. Basically, the album works extremely well. As an album. Which is the right way to listen in the first place.

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