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August 10th, 2006
Kelly And The Kellygirls - (Ind.)

We Love You, But Not As Much As We Love Ourselves
Steve Baylin

Rock and roll without narcissism is akin to Mick sans Keith: It feels incomplete. And what's more, to be blunt, it's boring. Fortunately, Toronto's R. Kelly Clipperton - the main man behind the black and blue bawdy burlesque of Kelly And The Kellygirls - is anything but. The former Merkury Burn magnate and media jack of all trades - though no stranger to the cycle of smug self-absorption (as the title suggests) - takes care (unlike so many) to look beyond the mirror towards creative profundity on his careening, strut-centric sophomore effort, We Love You, But Not As Much As We Love Ourselves: a manic, theatrically charged paean to the crash and burn of desire in all its messy glory. In a modern twist of mischievous revelry, Clipperton, whose voice fiendishly croaks somewhere between Peter Murphy and Tim Curry, at times channels Ian Dury in sheer sweat-soaked bluster if not precise sonic gusto: Like the ever inclusive Blockheads, the band "celebrate ferociously" and create both a joyous and painful rumble, its subversive, ska-tinged swinging showstoppers soaring sky-high one second, only to wallow in the gutter with bitter bravado the next.


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(((My Two Cents))) - Opinion On 'We Love You, But Not As Much As We Love Ourselves'

Kelly And The Kellygirls, in my opinion, create music that seems like it can belong in a movie. Honestly, as I listen to this release, entitled 'We Love You, But Not As Much As We Love Ourselves', I feel like I am possibly listening to the soundtrack of a movie as it is very much theatrically charged. Nonetheless, with that having said, I must say that I was not too impressed with this rock and roll album. I like how the ska elements were fused into there, and I will admit that some parts are extremely catchy, but as a whole, I find this a rather bland release and many times, I skipped a track after simply listening for a minute. Kelly Clipperton is a great frontman, I'll give him that, but other than his rather catchy voice, I cannot give this album too much praise. Sorry, but Kelly and the Kellygirls didn't convince me.

Zachary Masoud

August 12th, 2006

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