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Occasionally the music critics hit a bull's eye and manage to hype a band out of an undeserved obscurity. Not so with The Dresden Dolls, as I recently found out. The Boston man-woman duo (Brian Viglione on drums, Amanda Palmer handling piano and vocals) assumes the style of an androgynous kabuki theatre crashing into a goth convention. The result is usually bearable, but be warned: listening to the entire album in one sitting can be headache-inspiring. The overbearing piano combined with Palmer's agitated vocals and "I had a rotten childhood" lyrics make each song sound like a show tune under Janovian psychoanalysis. And who wants to hear Courtney Love sing "Cats" anyway?
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