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Art Sperl, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
IF IT WAS NO Utopia Parkway, Maroon was sufficiently quirky and humorous to hold the attention. There were crunchy hooks and pining sad-boy harmonies aplenty, not to mention a big Stephen Street production with lots of bottom end and pretty details strings, horns and keyboards in abundance up top.
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