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The Lackies Itch is a diverse debut which hits on a number of the band's influences. To its detriment, it wanders a bit much. After hearing the first track, "Under The Sky," I was all ready for a disc's worth of XTC-inspired pop brilliance with a dash of The Dukes of Stratosphear (an alter-ego of XTC's Andy Partridge) thrown in for fun. "What It Is" is funky and certainly catchy, but in a Lenny-Kravitz-let's-make-another-Nissan-commercial kind of way. Not too much fun. Halfway through the disc the band seems to recapture their witty sense of pop with "The Devil" and "The Caper."
"Spit It Out" is an attempt to scream, rant and distort while somehow being palatable. It doesn't work.
As the album draws to a close with "You're Not Alone" and "The Dirty One" it gives more of a glance into the talent of The Lackies.
I will await future releases from this South Carolina quartet in hopes that they will cut here, add there and make the album that Itch hints at.
review by Bruce Hartley
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