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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | A Flight And A Crash | | 2:08 | | 2 | | Jack Of All Trades | | 2:44 | | 3 | | Paper Thin | | 2:25 | | 4 | | Instrumental | | 1:38 | | 5 | | Swinger | | 2:41 | | 6 | | A Clear Line | | 3:15 | | 7 | | Choked And Separated | | 3:29 |
See more tracks| 8 | | Old Rules | | 2:50 | | 9 | | Sons And Daughters | | 3:27 | | 10 | | Sunday Suit | | 3:00 | | 11 | | She Takes It So Well | | 2:48 | | 12 | | One More Time | | 2:12 | | 13 | | In The Gray | | 3:48 | | 14 | | Call It Trashing | | 2:51 |
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Review
Hot Water Music aim to leave bruises, shake souls and change lives - not least of all their own. "Wait, it's all sounding the same!" the Florida quartet rails on its fifth studio album, A Flight and a Crash, as if dreary monoculture thinking was a personal challenge. The voices of Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard ping-pong between the Clash's brawny bravado (there's even a reference to "unruly sods" in "Jack of All Trades") and Fugazi's high-strung desperation as the band runs through a gantlet of self-examination. ("What are we doing?" HWM… Read More ask in "Choked and Separated"; "All of us feel trivial and . . . tentative," they confess in "Paper Thin.") But the music fights back with everything it's got: Prison-break guitars roil "One More Time"; a dollop of whoa-oh! harmony sweetens the title song; "She Takes It So Well" broods and builds to a slow burn. Hot Water Music are on a mission, and with fourteen songs blitzing past in thirty-nine minutes, there's no time to lose. GREG KOT
(RS 874 - August 2, 2001)
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