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Originally posted by Walley
You can't really call a genre "revived" if there hasn't been any improvement to it. It's okay if they wanted to do a cover album and keep the songs as is, but there really shouldn't be praise for it if they didn't improve anything, it's just so-so.
I agree with the Slant magazine review.
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"There shouldn't be any praise."
Ugh, do we really need to speak in absolutes and extremes here? So critics can't praise their voices, their chemistry etc.? So just base the whole review on one single element: whether they brought anything new to the table, or in ATRL lingo: ICONIC.
that review. Did they really need to say that?
I think I'll take a listen, even though I actually don't know many of the songs in their original form 
