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Option (Review)
Option, May 1989
By Mark Kissinger
Transcribed by Robert Ferent
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Friendly power-pop, catchy, commercial, and very well-scrubbed, thank you. You could probably dance to it okay in some air-conditioned club where folks don't work up much of a sweat because they're concerned about their hair. All of which fails to explain the presence of the closing track, which has a serious rip to it: it kicks in with an avant-noise guitar opening, and continues in a non-tame fashion nigh unto reckless abandon. Makes me wonder if the rest of the album was meant to be a parody or something. At any rate, there's genuine hope for the future.