All About Chemistry

Reviewed by:
Victor Blair

Buoyed by the jangly megahit “Closing Time,” Semisonic’s last album was a pleasant if forgettable effort. This follow-up, however, is charmless fluff barely worth the plastic it’s encoded on. If listening to Kenny Loggins do a mediocre Cheap Trick impression is your idea of fun, then by all means help yourself to sterile tracks like “Bed” or the abysmal lite-FM, listen-while-you-work ballad “Act Naturally.” Just like we did in high school, we think we’ll skip Chemistry and go catch a smoke outside shop class.

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