Robert Christgau: Living Things: Habeas Corpus

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Yet stylistically they're retro, committed to an idealized '60s garage psychedelia stripped of blooze strutting and doped-out solos. Yoking their opener to an instantly hummable "Take to the streets and run with me," then qualifying that message by singing about the equally catchy attractions of backyards that rhyme with credit cards, they're hip enough not to worry about ideological consistency. In a way, in fact, inconsistency is a principle for them. Wordman Lillian Berlin murmurs more than he declaims and prefers to share vocals with members of a shifting communal entity dubbed the "Living Things Choir," and if that fuzzes up the lyrics, well, like most bands, Living Things are more into emotions than ideas anyway. It's just that their emotions are about the end of capitalism. Blender, Mar. 2009  </td> </table> </body> </html>

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Robert Christgau: Living Things: Habeas Corpus