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I'm From Barcelona: Who Killed Harry Houdini?

Oct 14, 2008, 3:49pm

I'm From Barcelona: Who Killed Harry Houdini? I'm From Barcelona's 2006 debut album, Let Me Introduce My Friends was easily one of my favorite albums of the year. The 28-piece band from Sweden made some of the cutest twee pop tunes I had ever heard. Two years later, the group returns with their sophomore album Who Killed Harry Houdini? . Immediately the differences between the two albums are apparent. The albums opening track "Andy" is a pale ballad that's concerned much more with atmospheric pathos than keeping its pop sensibility. The fact is [...]

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