by Don Thomason Dunbar, KY United States Reviewed on October 4th, 2000
The major label coming-out for Tulsa's longtime most happening band (named for a landmark local drive-in theater) is an addictive exercise in modern pop. These guys know more hooks than the Gorton's fisherman, but they also know how to, for instance, juxtapose sunny music with cleverly antiheroic lyrics (as on "Better Than Nothing At All" and "Half a World Away"). To quote drummer Jarrod Gollihare, "We're big fans of putting dark lyrics to vibrant music." Becker, Russell, Carr, and Gollihare are interchangeably strong writers and vocalists. Admiral Twin has a sound that's sometimes heavy but always grooving, from urban sonics to Smithereenslike to white-album-Beatlesesque -- they put many diverse elements in the mix and make them gel. Highlights include "The Unlucky Ones," "Such a Saint," "When I Hit the Brakes," and the stopper "Veterans' Day." Get this one, crank it up, and make your ears bleed. You'll thank me.
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