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Telekinesis12 Desperate Straight Lines69 Based on 11 reviews 2011 Ranking: #320 / 498
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REVIEWS
12DSL captures the moment I first played air guitar to Weezer’s The Blue Album, and proceeds to replicate its gloriously visceral delights ad infinitum.
Lerner’s direct songwriting minces all of these college-rock influences into a surprisingly versatile record.
The record has some of his strongest, catchiest tunes to date, despite the continued reliance on silly lyrics.
There’s nothing here to make Lerner’s audience catch their breath, though—no ace guitar solos or unexpected vocal asides, nothing to indicate that these songs are anything more than catchy little melodies playing inside Lerner’s mind.
There are simply far too many songs like Car Crash where everything falls into place in exactly the wrong way
12 Desperate Straight Lines isn’t terrible by any means. There are some good melodic tunes throughout the record.
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(2009)DETAILS
RATINGS
| 83 | A.V. Club |
| 80 | Drowned in Sound |
| 80 | Spin |
| 72 | Beats Per Minute |
| 70 | AllMusic |
| 70 | No Ripcord |
| 66 | Pitchfork |
| 60 | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| 50 | Consequence of Sound |
| 50 | musicOMH |
| 50 | PopMatters |
| # 20 - | A.V. Club |
| # 31 - | Paste |
| # 12 - | SPIN |
| # 35 - | Under the Radar |
- You Turn Clear in the Sun
- Please Ask for Help
- 50 Ways
- I Cannot Love You
- Dirty Thing
- Car Crash
- Palm of Your Hand
- I Got You
- Fever Chill
- Country Lane
- Patterns
- Gotta Get It Right Now
