Audio By Carbonatix
Chicago quartet the Cairo Gang represents pathos in its many forms — sometimes enraged, other times outwardly tranquil, mostly just sorta blah. Frontman/singer Emmett Kelly is content to let his sensitively expressed complaints and disappointments go almost overshadowed by effects-free, naked guitar-playing in the main, with bongos, flutes, and recorders added to soften the emotional body blows. Now and again, avant-garde riff heroics dose or displace the plaintive strum at varying intensities for the sake of diluting the prevailing adult-contemp-playlist vibe here.
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