CSS' second album: a first listen

Sub Pop has been part-owned by Warners since the 1990s. their records are distributed by the ADA in North America, which is a company owned by Sub Pop and Warners in a 5%/95% split. this comment is nonsense.

ignoring the fact that sub pop would never let that their records be "smoothed over", i think anyone with half a brain at warners (which is, surprisingly, most of them) would also balk at such a thing.

imo the first css record was a big pile of shit with maybe two or three sparkling songs (we all know which ones) buried underneath, so it's not much surprise that their second effort isn't overwhelming.

would be nice to be surprised though.

It's the enigmatic Ira who's departed.

but you are suggesting not only some kind of nerfarious involvement on the part of Warners but also that they weren't heavily involved with the release of the first LP. which they were.

;-P

and they gained Jon Brando

I aint a an of perfect pop or perfect hipster indie. I did a cheeky winky sticky out toung thing too and everything heck. The first album has a couple of ok tunes and therest is filler. and this one sounds like its more of the same. Disapointing really.

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Sounds like this doing this or the so and so era of whatsitcalled.

It reads like the NME having a turd and then wiping its bottom with DiS?

you are the turd that NME had. Sometimes I pray that one day you will be wiped from DiS, but then I realise that you're a necessary evil here. Like a chlamydia umbrella or a traffic warden.