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Slackers The Question (Hellcat/Sonic Unyon) L.A.'s gone swing, Boston is ska-core, leave it to NYC's Slackers to keep ska tuff and trad. 9 (RB) Various Weird and Scary: The Ultimate Scream! in Film Scores (Milan) Must-listen for soundtrack freaks and horror cinephiles--includes Herrmann's classic Psycho suite and John Carpenter's Halloween. 8 (MH) Afghan Whigs 1965 (Columbia/Sony) Soul group trapped in the body of a rock band finally loosens up. Get jiggy Whig it! 8 (CY) Various Now We Are 5 (Sonic Unyon) Tricky Woo, Danko Jones, Kittens and all the others celebrate the Unyon patch kids' Big Fifth. 7 (JC) Tyrese Tyrese (BMG) 19-year-old model-turned-Coke-commercial-sensation-turned-singer actually is the Real Thing. 7.5 (GD) Snooze The Man in the Shadow (medicine/BMG) Soporific trip hop in a tired-out film noir vein. Hey, you snooze, you lose. 5/10 (RB) Too Many Cooks Hungry? (Donald D.) Now there's a feat: incorporate a rap vibe into your vague funk-metal and still sound like Journey. 5 (CY)
Corey Hart Jade (Columbia/Sony) Never surrender, Corey, never surrender. 4 (CY)
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