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An Army Of Shapes Between Wars,Action Action

- An Army Of Shapes Between Wars
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Action Action
Released 2006

The Game
03:18
9,236 plays

Smoke And Mirrors
04:27
6,024 plays

Oh, My Dear It's Just Chemical Frustration
03:51
4,876 plays

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- 1
- Smoke And Mirrors
- 04:27
- 6,024 plays

- 2
- Oh, My Dear It's Just Chemical Frustration
- 03:51
- 4,876 plays

- 3
- A Tornado; An Owl
- 02:52
- 4,261 plays

- 4
- Sleep Parlysis
- 05:24
- 3,197 plays

- 5
- The Game
- 03:18
- 9,236 plays

- 6
- Paper Cliché
- 03:11
- 12,111 plays

- 7
- 120 Ways To Kill You: An Illustrated Children's Book
- 05:42
- 3,779 plays

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- What Temperature Does Air Freeze At?
- 05:40
- 3,103 plays

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- The Other 90% Of The Iceberg
- 03:09
- 2,340 plays

- 10
- Analogue Logic
- 03:04
- 2,952 plays

- 11
- Don't Shoot The Messenger (Not My Idea)
- 03:15
- 2,378 plays

- 12
- Attached To The Fifth Story
- 07:15
- 2,452 plays

- 13
- The Blanket Truth
- 11:44
- 2,485 plays

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album review

An Army of Shapes Between Wars, the second long-player from Long Island's Action Action, finds the group expounding on the shiny, neon-addled new wave revival tack of its predecessor, 2004's Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion, and upping the artful quotient needed to keep them from being rendered a poor man's version of the Killers. With Cyndi Lauper vet William Wittman in the production seat, the vision of brainchild Mark Thomas "MTK" Kluepfel is captured proficiently, whether the outfit operates as a muscular, guitar-driven modern rock band ("The Game") or a synth-fostered pop act ("Smoke and Mirrors"). The latter is a commanding, retro-like winner with a quivering keyboard line and a memorable proclamation ("I'm done/Stick a fork in me") that could easily be a post-modern obscurity circa 1985. If "Sleep Paralysis" is nearly as strong, one can't help but think that the best action can be had when the band is in the guitar chirping mope-rocker mode of "A Tornado; An Owl." Perhaps it's just the atonal vocals on "Chemical Frustration" yielding listener frustration, but the Beatles-meets-Cure pop of "What Temperature Does Air Freeze At?" is sweet, sweet redemption. With that said, An Army of Shapes Between Wars is still more often hits than misses. Once Kluepfel gets over his identity crisis and decides what he wants Action Action to be, he just may turn out his masterpiece. ~ John D. Luerssen, All Music Guide