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• Artist: 90 Day Men
• Album: Panda Park
• Label: Southern
• Year of Release: 2004
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2005-05-10

90 Day Men return with what many will consider their most ambitious album to date. I'm fairly new to the band but am still very impressed with what I hear on Panda Park. It's an album that has glam elements mixed with post-punk, throw in a bit of prog as well as smatterings of earlier 90 Day Men math-rock. Piano is one of the instruments of choice throughout the album but not in a simple Ben Folds way. No, this is definitely much more complex. I feel a little Radiohead experimentation going on here but 90 Day Men come off much more organic. Nary a sample to be heard here, coming of more as operatic songs ("Silver and Snow") than anything. The first time I heard the acrobatic vocals on the opening track "Even Time Ghost Can't Stop Wagner" I almost shut them out but I found myself curious enough to carry on. The album is over way before you have had your fill of their expanse. It's a brief 35 minutes of piano and guitar wizardry that makes just crave more and more. As most cinematic rock albums, the more Panda Park is played, the more you desire it.

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