Blog: PopMatters

Far from using Lit From Within as an opportunity to exploit the freedoms and expectations of the classic double-album format, the Paperbacks have basically just made the same album that they always make, only twice as big. Despite a career now spanning three decades and as many bands, Doug McLean basically does one kind of song and generally does it very well. His main '90s gig, the Bonaduces (he did simultaneous duty in Painted Thin), made fast, buzzing punk-pop songs in what might have been easily described as a prototypically scrappy Ramones/Buzzcocks mode, were it not for [...]

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