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The late, great Shel Silverstein was celebrated for his children’s books (The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic), but he also created plenty of challenging work for adults, from his provocative and satirical illustrations for Playboy magazine to his cutting-edge songwriting for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. The Canadian screamo quintet named after him seems intent on closing the gap between those two worlds, bringing a hefty amount of maturity and depth to a genre mainly known for peddling whiny, derivative faux-angst to disaffected kiddies. It’s not every day that you’ll hear delicate violins mixing it up with chunky, metallic riffage and gut-wrenching howls — a combination that frequently rears its head on Silverstein’s 2003 Victory Records debut, When Broken Is Easily Fixed — but frontman Shane Told and company manage to pull off such instrumental idiosyncrasy without sacrificing good ol’ punk rock power, especially in a live setting.
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