Our Martin wrote a record review this a.m. It’s on an album called Bomb, by a singer-songwriter named Jeff Arundel.

It’s .. kinda good.

No, really.


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Martin begins with a thesis statement—he tells us that Arudel had been through some painful times since his past album, and that this all informed the new one.

He follows up that cogent encapsulation with … six paragraphs of explication, noting and explaining the album’s main songs, often juggling citations from both the lyrics and the music to make his point.

And then the review ..

… ends with an equally cogent closing paragraph, which not only reiterates his opening rhetorical gambit but even, in a nice little touch, adds a zinger on the same thing at the end.

We almost want to quote that graf, but the whole thing isn’t long, and it’s worth reading even if you’re not a music fan.

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