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It's mostly smart, free-thinking stuff, sharp in both attitude and design: a five-song sequence of outlaw songs towards the album's close, for instance, builds on the success of their Sopranos theme, displaying just as much ambivalence about crime as it moves from the faux-Western romanticism of "Yellow Rose" and reference "Bullet Proof" through a subdued cover of Springsteen's "Badlands" to the mother's mourning of her dead criminal reference son in "Lord Have Mercy". As ever, few punches are pulled and few illusions sustained for long, despite the occasional lapse into questionable whimsy. Twelve-step hypocrites are chided in "R.E.H.A.B." for replacing one crutch with another ("No method no guru no teacher for me/ I got no faith in no fantasy"), though the most pointed critique of modern life clings to the gambling metaphor of "Year Zero", where gangsta attitude gets its just deserts: "When every winner is a villain/ And every loser
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