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"An exquisite bas-relief. A beautiful design-deep love of the physical aspects of the subject is powerfully apparent-executed with attention to detail indicative of still more infatuation. But only an inch or two deep and cut in hard, rasping, knuckle-bloodying stone. Mind Sirens' Brian Butler has an amazing grasp of the lush, sophisticated songwriting convention au courant in the post-psych pre-prog epoch: trippy, terpsichorean smart-pop. His forebearers are the likes of Todd Rundgren, Emmit Rhodes and Michael Browne, back in their most disciplined days working with The Nazz, Merry Go Round and Left Banke/Montage respectively. Only this lilting, slightly lopsided writing is rendered via a brusque blistered didactic power trio-no trimmings allowed. So bass, drums and one distort-o guitar back up Butler's lone, lonesome vocal. This creates a cool foreshortening and leveling of songs and sounds leaving a lot implied that others would reflexively write-in, in tedious, orthodoxical obsessive detail. This winds up being fresh and refreshing by comparison. The limitations frame and spotlight the songs' virtues."Howard Wuelfling