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- Carver City [Special Edition]
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CKY
Released 2009

...And She Never Returned
03:32
8,868 plays

Rats In The Infirmary
03:30
8,499 plays

Imaginary Threats
03:43
7,231 plays

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- 1
- Hellions On Parade
- 03:40
- 10,915 plays

- 2
- ...And She Never Returned
- 03:32
- 8,868 plays

- 3
- Rats In The Infirmary
- 03:30
- 8,499 plays

- 4
- Imaginary Threats
- 03:43
- 7,231 plays

- 5
- The Boardwalk Body
- 03:39
- 6,937 plays

- 6
- Plagued By Images
- 03:24
- 6,353 plays

- 7
- Karmaworks
- 04:05
- 5,833 plays

- 8
- Woe Is Me
- 03:47
- 4,876 plays

- 9
- A#1 Roller Rager
- 03:50
- 7,018 plays

- 10
- Old Carver's Bones
- 04:57
- 4,894 plays

- 11
- The Era Of An End
- 03:52
- 4,681 plays

- 12
- Fisherman's Wharf, Part 1
- 04:15
- 4,757 plays

- 13
- Fisherman's Wharf, Part 2
- 02:54
- 4,342 plays

- 14
- Doubled Up On Trauma
- 03:24
- 5,165 plays

- 15
- Stripped Your Speech
- 03:55
- 4,982 plays

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album review

CKY are smarter than they're given credit for being. So is Bam Margera, but the band's (at this point tenuous) connection to him keeps some quarters from hearing the actual music, preferring to think of the band as knuckle-dragging skate-metal. Well, Carver City is about as far from that as it's possible to be. Moog synths get as much space in the mix as loud guitars, and drummer Jess Margera frequently plays rhythms that owe more to early-'80s new wave-inflected arena prog (think Rush's Signals, or Asia) than hardcore or stoner rock. Granted, there are some seriously heavy riffs here, on tracks like "Woe Is Me" and "...And She Never Returned," and hooks aplenty -- "Rats in the Infirmary" will stick in a listener's head for days. "A#1 Roller Rager" has a riff Fu Manchu would kill for, with a hypnotically bizarre synth sound and a chorus that makes it sound like an alternate-universe soundtrack to Fast Times at Ridgemont High. But a track like "Plagued by Images," which sounds like a cross between some of Brant Bjork's weirder solo experiments and Gary Numan, plus bludgeoning guitar riffs, simply has no place in a tiresome contemporary rock landscape that still hasn't gotten over grunge. These guys aren't heavy enough to be considered metal, and they're too weird to get much radio play, without being noisy or random enough to appeal to Mars Volta or Animal Collective fans. By being smart and unique, they're putting themselves in a tough spot, commercially. Good for them. [This Special Edition includes four bonus tracks.] ~ Phil Freeman, All Music Guide