What's ironic about this review is that it embodies what the writer accuses of 21CB - it's pompous, pretentious and totally devoid of wit, which seems to prove the point that you see your own faults most clearly in someone else. What is it that you love about music, reviewer? Where is that, anywhere in what you've written here? And this stuff with the 'inscrutable storylines' or whatever, the lyrics that you just don't get - I'm listening to GD's cover of Like A Rolling Stone right now, and wondering how this guy would get his head round the notion of 'the mystery tramp' if he won't even go the distance with 'when your mind breaks the spirit of your soul'. Is it so outrageous that some lyrics require a little thought and engagement, or does everything have to be literal and obvious?
You know ****it, I can really enjoy a bad review if it's done with gusto and humor - the gods of rock are there to be tilted at, like any other gods - but this shit is just bloodless, peevish negativity.