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Damnwells - Bastards of the Beat

Damnwells
Bastards of the Beat

Crisp, cutting pop songs that maintain a late-period Replacements-worthy sense of melody and structure. More good news is that the Damnwells have a lot going on in the songwriting department. They're at their best with slightly bitter, wearily sarcastic tunes and when they toss some alt country into the mix.

Based in Brooklyn, the Damnwells are about as far from the Midwest as they can be, yet their emotional pop-rock is sonically rustbelt -- where the husks of empty factories look almost pretty in the fading light. With spare Americana instrumentation added here and there to an organic guitar-bass-drums sound, the Damnwells brood in the no longer-imaginary place where Pete Yorn, the Goo
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Goo Dolls and drummer Steven Terry's old band, Whiskeytown, all hang out. Bastards of the Beat opens with a propulsive, sloppy barroom rocker with a vocal hook that's pure drunken Westerberg. Later the Damnwells steer toward Replacements-worthy goose-bump pop with singer-songwriter frontman Alex Dezen sounding delicately wounded and utterly real throughout. Throbbing psychedelic guitar opens "Sleepsinging" -- a haunting indictment of music business sharks, "Electric Harmony" sets a Beatlesque melody to a wistful waltz, and the dark "Star/Fool" out-pretties Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane" with plenty of dramatic white space and the chilling repeated threat/promise "I'm coming back for you."

TODD SPENCER
(April 5, 2004)

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Damnwells	Bastards Of The Beat Special Order	New	CD	$11.71	CDQ Special	USA
Damnwells	Bastards Of The Beat	NEW	CD	$13.33	HARD TO FIND	USA
Damnwells	Bastards Of The Beat !!! Not In Stock !!! Item Is Not Ready To Ship Within The Usual 2 Days. Please Allow Up To 90 Day... Special Order	NEW/NEU! (	CD	$21.98	Total Recall	Germany
Damnwells	Bastards Of The Beat [enhanced] Year: 2004; Label: Red Int / Red Ink; tracks: 1. Assholes [explicit]0:41; 2. What You Get 2:22; ...	Like New	CD	$9.11	SSM Music	USA
Damnwells	Bastards Of The Beat [enhanced] [audio Cd] Good Customer Service.will Package Well.	Very Good	CD	$7.80	LooneyGeeks	USA
Damnwells (artist), the (artist)	Bastards Of The Beat	Like New	CD	$12.59	SSM Music	USA

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