You, Me, and the Things Unsaid
2008 / 11 tracks, 54.2 mins / Kitty Wu Records
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"Built On Miles of Hope" comes in like fresh air when you've just come out of an air-conditioned building, that is, air-conditioned with large doses of boring and noisy. And the tracks thereafter too. Not to say that Amateur Takes Control stops being noisy after "Built On Miles of Hope", and not to say that they stop being boring either. But their form is well-improved, with "The Difference is" and "Leaving It Under Carpets" proving Amateur Takes Control has got the catchy hooks to keep one interested. Unfortunately, they're just too sparse, and the album ends on a horribly weak note, culminating in huge misstep title track "You, Me, and the Things Unsaid", where wildly unnecessary snippets of hip youngsters adorn the sound waves talking about things with their mouths pouting and their eyeballs rolling to look at the top, thinking about the smartest things they could say; Seems artful, maybe, seems clever, seems hip, seems utterly distracting, seems stupid and out of point. I never felt love or any of the things said in that song during the run-through of the album, but whatever - I've got MP3 players for a reason, and one of them is that I can make "Ghost Promises" the closer.
B4
Track Cuts: "The Difference is", "Leaving It Under Carpets"
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