Recovering Satellites

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Recovering Satellites is the second studio album by Counting Crows released October 15, 1996. - WIKIPEDIA

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INDEPENDENT

A classic solipsistic soul-barer, he just won't shut up about himself: there are more first-person-singulars in the lyric booklet to this album than even Morrissey would countenance. And when he runs out of words, there's still no respite, Duritz apparently regarding every instrumental coda as an opportunity to wail wordlessly along, in some misguided attempt to persuade us of the depth of his feelings.

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AV CLUB

is easily my favorite Counting Crows album.

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ALL MUSIC

Counting Crows crafted a self-consciously challenging response to their unexpected success.

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The Music Box

By the time the final chord of the acoustic Walkaways fades from view, it's impossible not to hit play and start the emotionally turbulent ride all over again.

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Entertainment

But what we have here, ultimately, is a sophomore effort in which more of the same bumps into just not enough. To use Duritz’s own terminology, his band’s oysters are fresh, but there aren’t many pearls.

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