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** Cracker, “Cracker,” Virgin. David Lowery still offers skewed collegiate cynicism in his first post-Camper Van Beethoven project, with a few touches of warmth and yearning added to boot. But with Camper’s skewed collegiate world-beat music replaced by the new band’s too-straight collegiate folk-punk-rock, it doesn’t offer much more.
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