In celebration of X having a new album out (their farewell?)
I must say I agree with Barney here.
To me they have one, maybe two, good songs - "Nausea" and "Los Angeles". But really only "Nausea" would I ever actively crave to hear.
They file into a category (future blogpost maybe) I call "See It, Don't Feel It"
Although, to be honest, I don't really see it either, as on-paper pitch to potential listeners
Voices that were never meant to sing, but that don't fit the category of "best bad singer" (Alice Cooper, Jennifer Herrema),... just insufficient, ill-advised, not built for purpose... consequently strained to put it mildly.
Guitar that is not all that (all that twangy "rock and roll"-ness).
Drumming, ditto.
I guess that just leaves the words, then.
The poet-as-rocker fallacy.
