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Album Intro：
Los Angeles's Silverlake district (and its vaunted power-pop renaissance) had its turn in the spotlight as the 1990s closed, with Tsar among the big-label signings, even if the 'scene' seemed to largely evaporate. To their credit, this band of ex-Santa Barbara college misfits take their pop calling with an effervescent urgency--and a glammy/bubblegum sass that wears its Starwood '78-era pedigree proudly. Tsar may deliver a quotient of hooks, harmonies, and screaming, as well as mercifully efficient fret fireworks worthy of early Cheap Trick, but that's hardly the least of their Velvet Goldmine-era fetishism. Opening with the potent one-two punch of 'Calling All Destroyers' and 'I Don't Wanna Break Up,' the 10 tracks here bound breathlessly from one anthemic, bigger-than-life pop conceit to the next with joyful abandon.. Jeff Whalen's sweet, infectious vocals belie the songs' wry, acerbic wit, fairly daring listeners to join in their often loopy sing-along choruses. Shoe-gazers beware--there's nary a dirge in sight. --Jerry McCulley
1. Calling All Destroyers
2. I Don't Wanna Break-Up
3. Silver Shifter
4. Kathy Fong Is The Bomb
5. The Teen Wizards
6. Monostereo
7. Afradio, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
8. Ordinary Gurl
9. Disappear
10. The Girl Who Wouldn't Die
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