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P.M. Dawn: Jesus Wept (Gee Streel/Island)

Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1995

JESUS WEPT is a multitracked feast of guitar rock, pillow-soft pop, moody psychedelia and sugary-sweet R&B with only one straight-up rap track on the entire collection. It shouldn't come as much of a surprise: On their third album, P.M. Dawn complete their transformation from a rap-based pop group to something altogether different and wonderful

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