Music Review

All About Chemistry (2012)

Semisonic
Reviewed by Ken Tucker | Mar 16, 2001
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Semisonic

What other band can record what sounds like a great lost Hall and Oates single (the title tune), collaborate fruitfully with Carole King (''One True Love,'' an exemplary pitiful-lonely-guy ballad), and invoke classic '60s psychedelia with a minimum of camp (''Sunshine and Chocolate'')? This trio, led by guitarist-singer-songwriter Dan Wilson, has crammed All About Chemistry, its third CD, with more catchy hooks than you'll find in a fisherman's tacklebox.

Originally posted Mar 16, 2001 Published in issue #587 Mar 16, 2001 Order article reprints

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