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With his nasally conversational style of singing atop lean, crisp rock, served with tossed-off expertise by his three-piece backing band, Mr. Prophet's "Temple Beautiful" recalls Green on Red as well as X, Alex Chilton's various projects, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, without the last's attendant polish.

San Francisco, City of His Dreams Jim Fusilli 2012

But the Mother's Best recordings tell a different story: Here is Hank Williams, the working musician, an ambitious young man who strove to make his immense creativity seem as tossed-off as the banter with which he engaged the people in a recording studio in Nashville.

Hank Williams: The Working Musician, The Creative Genius 2010

Little is done with the new characters to establish their connections to one another, save for some brief explanation by way of tossed-off speech.

Review: Iron Man 2 « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010

When it came out last year, Wild Nothing's debut album "Gemini" cast Mr. Tatum as a unique talent who could marry indie-rock's tossed-off moods with backing tracks that do the work of elaborate architectural structures.

Avant Bards Onstage Andy Battaglia 2011

But the Mother's Best recordings tell a different story: Here is Hank Williams, the working musician, an ambitious young man who strove to make his immense creativity seem as tossed-off as the banter with which he engaged the people in a recording studio in Nashville.

Hank Williams: The Working Musician, The Creative Genius 2010

But the Mother's Best recordings tell a different story: Here is Hank Williams, the working musician, an ambitious young man who strove to make his immense creativity seem as tossed-off as the banter with which he engaged the people in a recording studio in Nashville.

Hank Williams: The Working Musician, The Creative Genius 2010

But the whole thing feels too sketchy, too tossed-off, to hang together as a movie.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Elektra Luxx Marshall Fine 2011

But the Mother's Best recordings tell a different story: Here is Hank Williams, the working musician, an ambitious young man who strove to make his immense creativity seem as tossed-off as the banter with which he engaged the people in a recording studio in Nashville.

Hank Williams: The Working Musician, The Creative Genius 2010

Mr. Young, by his own admission, is far from an accomplished guitarist, but his spiky playing gave the music an appealing tossed-off texture that worked off Mr. Cowan's twangy sound.

Success With No Incubation Period Jim Fusilli 2011

As much as his insightful criticism, it was droll, tossed-off observations like this one from his new review of Happy Tears, emphasis mine that won me over:

Tiny accomplishments shunn 2010