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Brilliance Shines Under the Radar

C. Greenburg | LA, CA | 08/17/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There are certain cds in your life that are addictive, it's as if you're trying to figure out everything about it, and you can't stop listening and you try to listen to other s*&# and can't because it's just that good. I didn't buy all the VS stuff before (I will now). I honestly only knew one song, from a long time ago ("Seether") and was curious when a friend gave me IV but not like some diehard salivating fan convulsing with gratitude. Well, I had no idea. Certain songs are just brilliant: So Weird, Centipede, Closer - which is phenomenal, Damage Done, Blissful Queen, Comes and Goes and the Anthematic Salt Flat Epic. I don't know. Maybe sometimes brilliance does shine under the radar. And it's the combination, it's the drums, the drums freak me out, her voice, the mix, the order, everything about it. I saw them when they were in LA and she was amazing. The whole band was. I don't know. I feel like this record has so much passion, soul, angst and it's like listening to an angry schoolgirl who's got something to say and gets every single emotion anyone's ever felt and wants to get in your face about it. All I can tell you is I'm now that diehard fan I didn't expect to become. Certain cds go through the rotation often (I'm someone who actually likes hearing an artist's entire vision, beginning to end, and so rare is it these days that that respect pays off). VS IV will join Aisles of Miles, Celebrity Skin, Mondo India, Jimi in Monterey, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, The Color and The Shape, Damn the Torpedos, Fever to Tell, Stardust...I just pray whomever I ever fall in love with likes it too. I see this as a dealbreaker."