What Is Not to Love, Imperial Teen

TEEN AGING The quartet's second album shows a pop maturity

Music Review

What Is Not to Love

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Imperial Teen; Genre: Rock

As it turns out, the smug title of Imperial Teen's second album, ''What Is Not to Love,'' is pretty apt. There's something fundamentally warm and cuddly about the mixed-gender quartet's seductive mix of indie-rock clichés (distorted guitars, diffident vocals) and hook-and-harmony-informed popcraft. Although the two arty seven-minute-plus tracks prove they should keep their songs half that length, those are the only missteps on this spunky, relentlessly tuneful disc.

Originally posted Mar 09, 1999
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