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Review Summery: Just makes me nostalgic for their live performances, failing to live up to the spectacle they can truly deliver.
I saw the band live a few times before I ever gave their debut a worthwhile listen. I recall a flurry of shared links to YouTube videos of recordings and performances. I am even wearing their most recently released T-Shirt right now. It would be so easy to let the little fan-boy of me so haywire and proselytise without restraint about how glorious they are. Joanna Gruesome for me are a live band. While they do capture a lot of that magic and wonder on this album, it is just not the same experience. The songs remain little pockets of joy, but all I can think is that my first experience of them was live and that will forever be the benchmark by which I judge the album. It can not match the raw brilliance, I don't expect it too, but I am just left disappointed that I am not there on the concert venue flaw when I hear the music of Joanna Gruesome wail forth. Listen to this album. See them live. Do it the right way round, unlike me. Do not make the same mistake.
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