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Camper Van Beethoven: New Roman Times

Richard Gehr, Tracks, December 2004

FOR THEIR FIRST album since 1989's elegiac Key Lime Pie, David Lowery and his original posse of SoCal stoners reunite for a fascinating life-during-wartime alt-rock opera set in a contemporary demimonde of drug traffickers, hippie chicks, and heavy artillery.

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