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PB&J is also the first to go it alone, bearing more heart-on-sleeve foibles much like fellow broken-English charmers Jens Lekman and Herman Dune. A dirty volume knob makes the casio crackle at the end of "Reel Too Real", fittingly about finding one's footing, and "Le Petit Coeur" suitably swells with sweeping strings, but it's mainly later on
The Last Tycoon when Moren hits his solo stride, in such details as the slide guitar that meets up with his voice for the main melody of "My Match", or the rudimentary fingerpicking, one-note piano and kneeslaps on "This Is What I Came For".
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