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The Romantics
61/49
Two-hit wonders the Romantics haven’t recorded a new album in nearly two decades, but various incarnations of the band have been on the state fair circuit sporadically for years. Credit the group’s perseverance for “61/49,” a taut, mono-drenched collection so retro with its ’60s garage-rock flavor, it’s hip again. It’s a far cry from the only Romantics songs we know (“What I Like About You,” “Talking in Your Sleep”), but if this group were known by another name, it’d sound as sweet.
Take away: Welcome return
Also out this week: Enon, “Hocus Pocus”
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale (cdipasquale@tribune.com) and Kris Karnopp (kkarnopp@tribune.com)
