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My Ass-Kicking Life shifts aimlessly but amiably through various stripes of casual, approachable rock, scaled small (the twangy, semi-acoustic “Sneaking Up on You,” the spare “Mohair Pear”), big (the grunge-bottomed “Sox on Spot” and “Nocturnal”) and inbetween (the tunefully ’70s-riffing “Mean & Hateful”). Deibler’s voice tends toward squeakiness, but there’s no edge in his emotionalism and that keeps it out of the red zone. What’s more, his lyrics are clever and odd enough to hold attention even when the music drags. Winning the geniality award (the IDed picture of a cat is a typically homey touch) hands down, My Ass-Kicking Life only wants for the memorable tunes — Schilf’s chorus answer to Deibler’s lead vocal in “I Think I Know That,” lays in a catchy hook, making it the strongest track here — that would have left a deeper footprint
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