Album review: You Blew It!'s Keep Doing What You're Doing
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[Grade: B] Above all, Florida's You Blew It! deserves credit for touting initials-carved-in-tree-trunks sincerity in these cynical times.
You Blew It! | B
Above all, Florida’s You Blew It! deserves credit for touting initials-carved-in-tree-trunks sincerity in these cynical times. Keep Doing What You’re Doing (Topshelf) swells and sweats with moments of unabashed catharsis, turning Tanner Jones’ snide, throwaway remarks into revelries carried by ’90s guitar twinkle and vastly improved production values. A line like “For every good thing I could say about you/ There’s a great reason why I refuse to” coulda been Trapper Keeper poetry, but when the cymbals are crashing this hard, it’s more like a war report.
