It's Not Like That Anymore

The unlikely collaboration between one of rock’s glummest (Morphine’s Mark Sandman) and one of its goofiest (Presidents of the USA’s Chris Ballew), Supergroup, combines monotonous, spare instrumentation with novelty-tune vocals as peppy as a Steven Wright routine on the album It’s Not Like That Anymore. If the song’s lackluster, shaggy-dog quality bodes ill for the duo, they can take comfort in the knowledge that they have decent day jobs. B-