Singles are a tough cookie to crack. Sometimes it’s a great preview of what’s to come and other times, they’re something completely out of left field meant to snag a new audience (Lookin’ at you, Sugar Ray’s “Fly”). As a reviewer/writer/blogger/editor-type person, singles can be an even tougher pill to swallow especially with an album on the way: Do we review both? One or the other? You don’t wanna oversaturate the old tl’s and you definitely don’t want to be redundant when talking about a band or a particular single either separate from or within a review. For us it’s a matter of not having enough hours in the day to cover everything so in a case like Already Dead where we were, ahem, already diggin’ the singles, having the album come relatively soon after the first taste is a godsend because we can skip the middleman and bring you the whole shebang in one fell swoop. So let’s go!
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