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THE WEIGHT-"Are Men"

Feb 20, 2009, 4:36am Berkeley Place
THE WEIGHT-"Are Men" The Weight' s new album is titled, "Are men." Indeed, they are. This is manly country rock, sung mostly by Joseph Plunket, whose voice has more bottom than a fat girl on a mechanical bull, and played by a rough-and-tumble bar band. The opener, "Like Me Better," ends with a sizzling guitar solo that segues nicely into the explosive barnburner, "Had It Made" (which sounds slightly like The Grateful Dead's "Alabama Getaway"). The album is cleaner, and better produced, than their first—they seem to have abandoned their punky ways for a more classic sound—and it's a [...]
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