In Pursuit of Leisure
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In Pursuit of Leisure
In the Pursuit of Leisure is Sugar Ray's fifth studio album released in 2003. Hip-hop artists Esthero and Shaggy guest-star on the album. -Wikipedia
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Exclaim
In the Pursuit of Leisure is just a crying shame. Something to laugh at, not with.
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All Music
So, it's not as consistent as Sugar Ray, stumbling on occasion, but it does deliver some great guilty pleasures -- the opening "Chasin' You Around"; the sweet "Heaven"; the rocker "In Through the Doggie Door," which redeems its title; the excellent cover of "Is She Really Going Out With Him?,"
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Slant Magazine
The album is about as easy to swallow as your average episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: pleasant, inoffensive and completely forgettable.
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Music Stack
Sugar Ray are a synthesis of everything that's dumb about pop music; like Prell shampoo, they make you feel bouncy, resilient and full of pep. In the Pursuit of Leisure, their fifth album, is extremely infectious, thick with irony and inexplicably goofy. Their guitar riffs are the musical equivalent of gorilla suits, and their turntablism is like a pie in the face. Oy vey!
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EW
Leisure plays like the musical equivalent of junk food. Nothing on this album is good for you, but you may find its saccharine charms difficult to resist.
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Down in the Valley
This collection of twelve catchy, innocuous trifles is sounmemorable that it's tempting to accuse Sugar Ray of having run out of ideas. But of course, we all know the band never really had any ideas in the first place. In an age of one-hit wonders, here's a rarity—a band that tires of its music before its audience does.
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