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wrote that "the beautifully constructed frustrated-love songs 'Stuck Here on the Ground' and 'Watching the Grass Grow' would be on oldies radio every eight hours if they’d only been recorded 20 years earlier." The
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noted that "instrumentation is kept to a minimum, harmonies are blended to sound human rather than studio slick and songs are intended to reflect everydayness rather than rock glamour."
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wrote that "there's something decidedly postmodern about the Shams' approach to music, which combines girl group '60s pop with off-kilter jangliness and a sort of country twang."
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called "Down at the Texaco" "a lively but hardly abrasive rocker that revives the spunky spirit of the
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concluded that "it's the good to great songs, artlessly terrific singing and sparse arrangements that make
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deemed the album "positively delightful," labeling it "a cross between the Roches and the
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