The Art of Disappointment
The Benjamins
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Couch | The Benjamins | 3:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Wonderful | The Benjamins | 3:19 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Sophia On the Stereo | The Benjamins | 2:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Frank Was Right | The Benjamins | 5:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Shine | The Benjamins | 3:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Clover | The Benjamins | 2:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Riverwest Creeps | The Benjamins | 3:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Weather's Here, Wish You Were Beautiful | The Benjamins | 2:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Gave It Away | The Benjamins | 3:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Little Tin Heart | The Benjamins | 11:59 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Album Review
The Benjamins shamelessly display all things great and endlessly endearing about power pop: instantly digestible melodies; short and tuneful solos; bottom-heavy distorted fuzz bass; a pounding backbeat; multiple layers of guitar crunch; harmonic bliss; and lyrics of love lost, love found, and love unrequited. Delivered in a devil-may-care attitude with heart in hand and tongue in cheek, the Benjamins' youthful exuberance crashes through with the force of a teenage sunami. "Sophia on the Stereo" is an aural paean to the Cars that symbolically opens with the scratchy sounds of a car radio before giving way to the onslaught of noodling synthesizer riffs, "uh-oh" backing vocals, the always reliable I-IV-V chord progression, and lyrics imbedded in the tradition of late-'70s new wave. In "Couch," a paint-by-numbers Cheap Trick tribute, Jay Stys comically pines, "Molly Ringwald, me and you, 16 candles, lonely summers." The Art of Disappointment is a pop/rock joyride without filler.
Biography
Formed: October, 1999 in New Jersey
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '00s
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- $9.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Alternative, Punk, Indie Rock
- Released: Feb 27, 2001
- ℗ 2010 Drive-Thru Records
