Article: STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 . . . TICK . . . TICK . . . TICK DOWN THERE

Sometimes you can judge a book, or in this case an album, by its cover. If the title of ex-Dream Syndicate frontman Steve Wynn's latest reads like a time bomb, it's because the album sounds like one. The third in a trilogy of triumphs (beginning with 2001's terrific "comeback" double-disc, "Here Come the Miracles"), "tick" is a lit fuse of a record that recalls Wynn's Dream Syndicate days of wine and roses yet doesn't coast on nostalgia. Instead, mordant meditations such as "Freak Star," "The Deep End," and the Television- esque guitar epic "No Tomorrow" capture the unsettling tenor of these times. They also reaffirm the ...

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