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    If there's ever any demand for Pavement or Modest Mouse cover bands, Urbana, IL's Rectangle will be ready and willing with their perfectly angular guitar riffs and ultra-ironic vocal delivery. Released in late 2000, Bunker is a good seven years behind its time. Maybe the album title refers to where this band has been hiding out. But, to their credit, everything is in the right place. They've clearly done their homework -- from their faux casualness and playfully inscrutable lyrics ("I can be anywhere, I'm a polar bear," from "Polar Bear") right down to the copy shop album art. Bunker is also a wonderfully recorded album, it sounds warm and rich like all vintage gear was used, and it even features a seldom heard instrument called the optigan. But it all smacks of a rip-off. It may sound great, but it's been done before, and done better.

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