"Kim" Well, here's one to get the people shouting, usual suspects and strange bedfellows alike lining up with or opposed to one another in vociferous praise or condemnation. Nobody's gonna budge an inch when it comes to this guy. At least for the duration of this marvelous rollercoaster ride, put me in the Big Thumbs Up column. A lusty, raw, unfiltered, and utterly focused adolescence directs the action on several levels at once, working them like a panoply of jugglers in a street parade with bowling pins. Now this adenoidal force of nature chants. Now it hits the hook of an irresistible blast of melody. Now it's addressing a wry aside to you. Now it's talking in character. Now another character. It rhymes. It puns. It's funny. Which is fine and good -- entertaining, like. But then, in a flash, high points hurtle out somewhere beyond the rings of Saturn. "Stan": a morality tale told with relish. "Kim": a riveting hellish homicidal fantasy. Note the use of the nouns "tale" and "fantasy." Nobody was harmed in the recording of any of these tracks, but a lot of times you're pretty sure a crime has been committed. And perhaps it has -- after all, a sticker on the cover gives fair warning.buy from CD Universe
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