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Moron Parade, Dark Knights: Knife City (Paradeco)
This is the type of rock and roll played by excessively smart hoodlums since the dawn of time. They've got screaming guitars, droning basslines, thrashing drums, and barely-heard vocals over it all. They've undoubtedly got a knack for the type of wry indie songwriting influenced by Pavement and any number of K Records groups. Surprisingly, they're also quite versatile, with material running the gamut from the joyously ramshackle, major-chord shout-along "Borrower", to the early-Clash crib "Castle" (which has the exact same chord progression as "Clash City Rockers"), to the Modest Mouse vamp "Systems Cycles". For fans of the irreducibly lo-fi, this album may prove a major revelation. Moron Parade may not have reinvented the wheel, but they have produced -- with the help of some obvious influences -- a damn fine record.
— Tim O'Neil
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