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until the very end." The group's lack of musical risk on the EP was also criticized in a more mixed review by
Sackllah, spotlighting "Compass Point" as the set's only memorable track: "At best, Crime Cutz is a decent release by a talented group that clearly has potential to make some great retro records. At its lowest points, it’s filled with clumsy lyrics and meandering tracks that never really go anywhere."
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as "a bright, tight, tense mini-epic, solidifying as one of the pillars of the mid-'00s disco resurgence." His only major criticism of the EP was its lack of stylistic variety: "you spend a lot of the record hoping for something to take them even further over the edge, but they continue to pull back
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that was officially released only consists of four tracks, Holy Ghost! said in their
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Singles Going Steady, multiple writers reviewed the track upon its release. The 12-inch vinyl single for the song that also includes the instrumental version of the song was a 300-copy limited edition. An official Ben Fries-directed video for the song depicted multicolored lights flashing to
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vocals from the East Coast
Inspirational Singers group join in, which Frankel, "literally found them on the internet. We met up the next day, and it was awesome and really moving to hear them sing. In general we've tried to be a bit more off the cuff when recording recently, a last minute addition
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were developed first. Holy Ghost! traveled to Los
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lead vocals are also present in the arrangement. "Stereotype" is about the band's self-awareness and pride towards them being of a very well-known musical genre, singing in a mournful tone that "I know I'm a stereotype, don't be so critical Let go." In the track's first draft, the drum parts and
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derived its title from a person of the same name who gave Holy Ghost! a drum break to be used in the song; it was not included in the final mix, however. It begins with "spacey" synthesizers, before the acoustic drum beat kicks in around a minute into the song. Halfway into the song,
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the beat, with Aubrey Cook starring as the dancer. On April 22, 2016, DFA released a "Crime Cutz" remix EP featuring two re-cuts of the song, one by Alan Palomo's project
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