Brooklyn's beloved and brilliant anti-scenesters return with their long-awaited second album. The band is more rollicking, more foot-stomping, and more brilliantly warped than ever. Comparisons to the Flaming Lips, NRBQ, Guided By Voices, and the Pixies are common, but they ring true.

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One of the best things about indie rock is its embrace of the silly as well as the serious. Bands such as the Flaming Lips, Ween, and, to a lesser extent, Pavement and the groups in the Elephant 6 collective never shied away from their goofier sides; more often than not, this improved their music and gave it a more well-rounded quality. The Mink Lungs want very badly to belong to this tradition, but on their second album, I'll Take It, they end up sounding like a novelty rock band, and not a terribly inspi...   [ read more ]

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It's true that even at a time when there seemed to be a competition of sorts among many indie bands to be the most eclectic, the Mink Lungs' debut was one of the most eclectic indie rock offerings around. It's also true that it's much harder to raise eyebrows with this approach than it used to be; you can't have the same earth-shattering effect as the Mothers of Invention did in the 1960s just by deciding to be avowedly weird and funny. Still, they try, turning most often to slightly wacky and twisted song...   [ read more ]

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