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The Doxies:
Weight of Gold
The Doxies know all about appropriate packaging. With swirling blues behind the golden letters of their album title, this spurs on images of snazzy suits with colorful collar shirts and shaggy hair. This quintet is ready to solve some mysteries and bust the bad guys. To start this thing off, lets discuss sound quality. First of all, the album sounds like your dads long lost vinyl gone digital. Its got a fuzzy haze looming above each song, which would be cool if it really did come from your dads old record collection. But if it had come from his collection and you just unearthed it for the first time, you would think you came across a pretty good find. With songs like Smile, these tracks just make you want to, well, smile. They are fun rock songs with a pop sensibility. They get down like Disco Stu and even show off alt-country influences. I cant help but hear a little bit of Jeff Tweedy coming through in the vocals, though in The Last Dance, I am somewhat disturbed by the female vocal accompaniment because it sounds too high, getting awfully close to chipmunk range. Sitting amongst the better tracks is Crows and Jays (This Bird Flies) which has a 70s British vibe and fun addition with horns in the last half. Equally fun is Iron Skin, with its piano-infused, drum-heavy rock out quality. While the album is good overall and certainly shows a group with some solid talent, one has to wonder what it would have sounded like had they chosen not to use outdated recording equipment. With the songs on this album, the recording doesnt add as much character as it does take away from quality. That aside, the album may not be quite worth its weight in gold, but its certainly worth a twirl in the player.
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