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Cover Art O-Matic
Dog Years
[Grass]
Rating: 6.2

O-Matic play fucked-out trunk rock with an emotional blast of insanity. With that in mind, I'll elaborate.

Kim Deal had her hand in this recording. You can hear traces of her (and even her background vocals) all over the record. The band claims that all she did on the record was "re-arrange the mikes," but nobody believes them, yours truly included.

So think punk rock with Deal's studio prowess, and an attitude that'll skim anywhere between seven and fourteen dog years off your life O-matically. Damnb.

-Ryan Schreiber

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"Slow Ass Cadillac"
MPEG-LayerIII
64kpbs.44kHz.
197k.25sec.
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