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• Artist: Walking Bicycles
• Album: Disconnected
• Label: Highwheel
• Year of Release: 2006
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-08-22

Walking Bicycles is a Chicago duo that rocks jagged and raw, but stutters in way you can dance to. Vocalist Jocelyn Summers wails and whispers, always threatening to completely fall out of tune and out of the listener's graces, but recovers just in time to meet Guitarist Julian Moriarty on common ground. Having said that, the production (which includes four songs each recorded with Steve Albini and Brian Deck) could have moved the guitars up to the vocal's level; it would have given more power to the duel. Nevertheless, on "the Mermit" and "So Far", a tight post-punk groove is found, to offset some of the more dramatic but less satisfying "Desperate" or both versions of "Welcome to the Future." "Car Crash" has better ideas than those, but still does not push the song any farther than the over-emotional vocals.

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