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TRACKNAME TIME ▒▓ ██ ▓█ ██ 01 | The Art Of Losing [03:23] ██ ██ 02 | The Breakup Song [02:56] ██ ██ 03 | Beautiful Disaster [02:37] ██ ██ 04 | Save Me [03:56] ██ ██ 05 | Nothing Left To Lose [02:56] ██ ██ 06 | Teenage Alien Nation [03:01] ██ ██ 07 | Rise [03:11] ██ ██ 08 | This Is The Sound [04:11] ██ ██ 09 | The Gold Rush [03:38] ██ ██ 10 | Built For Speed [02:48] ██ ██ 11 | Happy [04:03] ██ ██ ██ ██ ------- ██ ██ 36:40 min ██ ██ ██ ██ ┌─┬─┬┐┌─┬─┬─┬─┐ ┌─┬─┬┐┌─┬─┐ ██ ██ │││││├┤││││└┤││ │││││└┤││└┤ ▄█ ▄██ ██ │ ┤┌┤││┌┤ ├┐│┌┤ │││││┌┤┌┤┐│ ■█████████████████████████████████████████ ██ └┴┴─┴─┴─┴┴┴─┴─┘ └┴┴─┴─┴─┴─┘ ▀█ ▀██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ AMG Review : ██ ██ Former '90s alt.rock utility man Stacy Jones brings the ██ ██ gleaming steel wool of his American Hi-Fi out of the box ██ ██ once again with The Art of Losing. The album arrives ██ ██ after a curious live offering, which seemed to exist ██ ██ solely as an opportunity for Jones to fulfill a Live at ██ ██ Budokan fantasy. Nevertheless, fans of the 2001 hit ██ ██ "Flavor of the Weak" will find The Art of Losing and its ██ ██ title track lead single worthy follow-ups. It's ██ ██ appropriate that "The Art of Losing"'s slick, ██ ██ reconstituted punk jerk found its way into a Coors Light ██ ██ ad -- its chants of "Hey ho/Let's go/I'm gonna start a ██ ██ riot" and "One two/Fuck you/Don't tell me what to do" ██ ██ take the packaging of punk for mass consumption to ██ ██ macrobrewery levels. Impossibly, the similarly processed ██ ██ grit of "The Breakup Song" is a straight-up knockoff of ██ ██ blink-182's "First Date". Jones includes another ██ ██ name-drop of Cheap Trick here, too; the production ██ ██ inserts handclaps, layer after layer of harmony vocals, ██ ██ and the thousand-foot-high guitar tone typical of songs ██ ██ mixed for radio. In fact, this is the sound that guides ██ ██ both Losing and American Hi-Fi, a band that's been ██ ██ designed and built for success in three-minute ██ ██ increments. "Nothing Left to Lose" splices played-out ██ ██ hip-hop phrasing ("Holla back y'all", "All the bitches in ██ ██ the back") into smarmy Jackson Browne and Undertones ██ ██ references as the guitars chug and ring referentially; ██ ██ "Teenage Alien Nation" and "Beautiful Disaster" feature ██ ██ more bombastic riffery and meticulously placed potty ██ ██ mouth from Jones. Elsewhere there are the requisite ██ ██ ballads ("Save Me" and "This Is the Sound" -- think a ██ ██ louder Goo Goo Dolls), but The Art of Losing is rounded ██ ██ out mostly by a jumble of F-words, cheeky pop culture ██ ██ references, name-drops (Built to Spill? My Bloody ██ ██ Valentine? Mentioning them doesn't put you in the same ██ ██ league), and more buzzing 21st century new alternative ██ ██ rock helped out considerably by production chicanery. ██ ██ American Hi-Fi truly is the flavor of the week. ██ █▓ ▓█ ▓▒ URL........: http://www.americanhi-fi.com/ ▓█ ░░ ▒█ ░ ┌─┬─┬─┬┬┬─┐ ┌─┬─┬┬┬─┐ ▒█ █▄ │┌│││││││││ │││││││└┤ ░█ ▄██████████████████████████████████████████████■ │├┤ ┤││││┌┘ │││┌┤ ├┐│ ░█ ██▀ █▀ └─┴┴┴─┴─┴┘ └┴┴─┴┴┴─┘ ░█ ██ ▒█ █▓ ▒█ █▓ No news atm. ▒█ █▒ ▒█ █▒ ░█ █░ GREETZ......: To all the 'just for fun' ripping groups ░█ █░ out there. ▓█ █░ ▓█ █▒ ██ █▓ ██ ██▄ :[ ASCii by The L3b0wsk1z ]: ▄██ ████▄▄ ▄▄████ ▀███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▀ ████████████████████▄ ███████████████████▄▄ █████████████████████████ ███████████████████████▄ ███████████████████████▄ █████████████████████████ █████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███████ █████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███████ ██████ ███████ █████ ▀█████ █████ ▀█████ ████████ █████ ▄█████ █████ ▄█████ █████████ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░