Young, Dumb, And Dramatic: Stream Set It Off’s New Pop Album, ‘Duality’ — mtv.com

“We’re young, we’re dumb and we don’t care,” Cody Carson sings on “Forever Stuck In Our Youth,” one of the standout tracks from Set It Off‘s new LP Duality, in what sounds like a call to arms for a hedonistic outing. But while there’s plenty of that song’s indelible shout-along hooks spread throughout the rest of the record, Carson and company mainly keep busy exploring and experimenting with a pop pastiche that’s anything but dumb: emotional highs and lows of romance gone wrong (ahem, “N.M.E.”), the penny-dreadful theatrical dynamics, jangly piano interludes, creeping harpsichords, and noodling guitars and drums that’d give Billie Joe and Tre Cool pause.

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