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Aug 2, 2024In true punk tradition, Smoke & Fiction is brief, clocking in at just half an hour. But even if most of the album’s 10 tracks are uptempo, they recycle familiar sounds too conservatively to generate much momentum. In the end, X’s newfound reflectiveness comes at the expense of urgency.