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September 4, 2008
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OXFORD COLLAPSE
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(Sub Pop)
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The name Oxford Collapse suggests the chaotic crumbling of well-mannered, ivy-covered edifices (it also sideways recalls Orchid's brilliant freak-out "Amherst Pandemonium"). Appropriately, Oxford Collapse's songs are smart, bright pop rock-the sort ofthing critics might have called "college rock" in simpler times-that seem to be always on the verge of falling apart. Lattices of climbing guitar melody wobble and threaten to unhinge; sharp, politely sung verses devolve into ragged, screaming choruses; speeding rhythms threaten to run off the rails.
"Electric Art," with its chorus of "I can't remember things," is a fuck-up anthem worthy of the Replacements. ...
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