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Charlus
Tragic Accident
2007
I think this line from the Connecticut-based band's online bio says it all: “Seasons fly past a feverish young poet and the lessons scorched and seared into his poet heart enable him to emerge out of the shadows and reveal himself with triumphant pageantry.” I know, right? From the b-sci-fi-romance-flick electro-rock and postured, overwrought vocal presence to the photos of the topless chick with the metallic tire tracks across her breasts on the back cover, Charlus – and ringleader Daniel Opalach in particular – has raised self-consciously arty pomposity to heretofore unimagined heights. Tragic Accident gets half a star for the fairly decent guitar riffs on the title track and (seriously) “The Witch Wanders In,” for the excellent production values that almost always seem to accompany this sort of endeavor, and for being perhaps the most aptly titled album of all time.
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