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- Summary: Rjyan Kidwell's second release of 2003 (third, if you count his all-instrumental alternate version of 'Being Ridden') features 8 new songs that run the gamut from rap to industrial rock to glitchy electronica.
- Record Label: Jade Tree
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Electronic, Rap
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Positive: 14 out of 15
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So perhaps it's about time that we stop calling Cex a wunderkind: He may be barely 25 but with the introspective yet exuberant Maryland Mansions, he's officially grown up, establishing himself as a performer to be taken-- yikes!-- seriously.
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BlenderDeconstructed sonics phase between absent-minded professor and glitch-craft. [#23, p.101]
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PopMatters
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Rolling StoneCex has finally found a way to bridge his goofball rhymes and brilliantly cinematic techno collages. [27 Nov 2003, p.94]
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UrbHe finally seems to be combining alll of his varied interests into a complete package more substantive than his earlier, smark-alecky adventures. [Mar 2004, p.108]
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[A] weird, angry, frustrating album.
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Although there are some moments of greatness on the disc, it feels more like a cathartic vent-session than a well thought-out release.