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Not that I'm trying to defend the ridiculousness of that sentence, but Brent DiCrescenzo was pretty notorious for being sarcastic and witty. I was always under the impression he was writing that infamous Kid A review intentionally gratuitous

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Yes, Brent had a fairly famous meltdown known as his Beastie Boys / To the 5 Boroughs review.

http://bbs.beastieboys.com/showthread.php?t=21070

(retraction info here: http://bbs.beastieboys.com/showpost.php?s=1da97f1e4c1a2a3b6d...)

there's a good chance that absurdity was deliberate.

You can take that as a given. I've always thought Brent's Lateralus review was the high water mark (low water mark???) DiCrescenzo piece. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/

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