Black Ticket Day offers eight tracks featuring Kuepper's pop/rock side, driven by acoustic guitars, cascading piano chords/ and his plaintive vocals (reminiscent at times of the Cure's Robert Smith). Even at his most gorgeously melodic, there's always a dark, mournful tinge to Kuepper's work. His ability to combine beauty with sadness ("All My Ideas Run to Crime") and basic pop structures with extended improvisation (the nine-minute "Blind Girl Stripper") can be mesmerizing. ~ Roch Parisien

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