“When Beth Murphy cheerily chirps, “Let’s do something that hasn’t been done yet,” over Rip It Off’s “Faces On Fire,” you’d figure the statement has to be laden with enough irony to choke half the population of Brooklyn. After all, wouldn’t a band whose members cheekily claim to be Hamish Kilgour, Brix Smith and Mark Ibold on their MySpace — and title a buzzing instrumental “Times New Viking Vs. Yo La Tengo” — be well aware that their melodic lo-fi thing was already done to death a decade ago? “ – Dan Epstein, eMusic.

Memo to Beth, Adam and Jared. From this point onward, your lyrical content will judged as strictly autobiographical. If this has a chilling effect on artistic expression, too fuckin’ bad. Some folks have a lot of reviews to write and we can’t have you taking up too much of their valuable time.

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