Troubadour

"Guitarist Jeff Gitelman, bassist/keyboardist Dan Edinberg, and drummer Tim Walsh prove themselves capable at this genre, however, and appropriately it is far less soulful. Despite some missteps, like an attempt at rapping on "Bitter Bug" or a slight lapse into new age on "Symmetry," there are a handful of songs that redeem the ambling nature of the album: "The Lottery," "Desert in the Dark," "Sweet Salvation," and "Moving Pictures" qualify as highlights".

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"The Stepkids' white-boy soul could be seen as fitting well into a spate of recent pop albums that make use of an understated smoothness, but the bombast of the best songs on Troubadour excites in a way that the too-cool stylings of The 20/20 Experience and Blurred Lines often fail to do. Like their soul-funk contemporaries, the Stepkids mine a polymathic knowledge of music, distill it into a variety of seemingly incompatible sounds and then filter those through a funkified, purple lens".

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