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  • Summary: Before Alex McAulay was an author, he performed under the name Charles Douglas. The two disc compilation contains songs recorded between 1995 and 1999 by the Seattle-born singer.
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  1. Aug 14, 2012
    80
    His musical voice is not unique, but his way with a hook--and a cocked snook--is terrific, and for such an exhaustive set, the "too much of a good thing" effect takes a remarkably long while to kick in.
  2. Aug 14, 2012
    70
    Some incredible songs also made it through, and if Minor Wave and Haunting and Daunting sound like perfectly listenable period pieces, then The Burdens of Genius and The Spiders are Getting Bigger are for the ages; timeless encapsulations of youthful frustration and depression, and the outer limits of a drug-warped imagination.
  3. Aug 14, 2012
    70
    This collection is worth picking up, purely because it is nice as a listener to have a rummage around 60-odd songs in the search of something good; the challenge might be to narrow that batch down to ten songs worth keeping, and to forward those songs onto someone you know.