 Paper Lions The Symptom And The Sick
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Atlanta's Paper Lions are exciting, even intriguing, because of the combo's ability to reconfigure what's come before and present it in a fresh way. Drawing upon three decades of rock, Paper Lions combine elements of Seventies pioneers Gang of Four and the Clash with the iconoclastic guts of Fugazi and a contemporary emo edge to fashion an impressively taut eleven-song debut. The group's guitarists, Jesse Smith and Justin Snyder, share an intuitive, powerful interplay (they've played in a previous band together) that threads through The Symptom and the Sick. "Money Blanket," "He Commands Commandments" and "Graduation Prize Prize" are perhaps the CD's standout tracks, but there's not a Read More bad cut on this nifty calling card from the South. MARK WOODLIEF (February 25, 2003)
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