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One of the original batch of bands that started mixing indie rock, post-punk, and disco-influenced rhythms in the '90s, Q and Not U return with Power, an album that nods to dance-punk's moment in the sun and also finds them adding more dimensions to their already versatile sound. Like Les Savy Fav, Q and Not U are among the strongest songwriters working in this style, and on Power, they're equally adept at short, sharp shocks like "L.A.X." and more introspective pieces such as "Dine." This ebb and flow makes the album less forceful than previous work like No Kill No Beep Beep, but it also makes Power more interesting, even if the ping-ponging between quietly quirky pieces like "Throw Back Your Head," an oddly folky, flute-driven song, and brainy, spazzy pop like "Wet Work" is disconcerting at first. It's tempting to single out Power's most singular moments, like the medieval harmonies on "District Night Prayer," as the album's highlights, because they're such a departure; however, "Book of Flags" and "Tag-Tag" are prime examples of the band's undeniably kinetic punk-funk. "Wonderful People" and "Beautiful Beats" are even more danceable, but still retain that paranoid, too-smart-for-their-own-good feel of all of Q and Not U's work. This feeling comes to the fore on the tense, "Glass Onion"-esque "Collect the Diamonds" and "X-Polynation," which both echo the trend of mixing politics and dance-punk, but do so more subtly, and timelessly, than the rants of !!! and Radio 4. Even when there are plenty of other bands working in a similar style, Q and Not U remain more distinctive and harder to classify than many of their peers, which makes Power an exciting album and proof that the band has variety and vitality to spare. ~ Heather Phares
Recording information: Love Story.
Photographer: Shawn Brackbill.
Q and Not U: Chris Richards (vocals, guitars, synthesizer, bass guitar); Harris Klahr (vocals, guitars, synthesizer); John Davis (vocals, drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Don Zientara.
Magnet (p.106) - "This Q And Not U can still kick it....The all-over-the-map POWER dares you to see Q And Not U - and, by extension, yourself - differently." Power Music | List Price | $11.98 (You save $0.79) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Pop CDs, Punk, Rock | | Label | Dischord | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  60705  | | CD Universe Part number | 6784993 | | Catalog number | 143 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 05, 2004 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Engineer | Pete Cafarella; Rafael Cohen; Pete Cafarella; Rafael Cohen |
Q And Not U Power Songs | 1. | Wonderful People |
| 2. | 7 Daughters |
| 3. | L.A.X. |
| 4. | Throw Back Your Head |
| 5. | Wet Work |
| 6. | District Night Prayer |
| 7. | Collect the Diamonds |
| 8. | Beautiful Beats |
| 9. | Dine |
| 10. | X-Polynation |
| 11. | Passwords |
| 12. | Book of Flags |
| 13. | Tag-Tag |
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How many times have you seen it happen: indie hotshot band makes a swell record, gets lots of press, builds a fan base, signs to a bigger label, and immediately releases a completely horrible record that loses all its fans and turns the critics into a frothing pack of wild dogs. Quite often. Pretty Girls Make Graves manages to nimbly sidestep this tragedy by signing with Matador (just a small leap up in size from Lookout) and releasing a record that is actually a whole lot better than anything the group has previously done. In fact, it is better than one could imagine them ever being. The New Romance is a dramatic, thoughtful, emotional, imaginative, and hard-rocking effort full of songs that will tug at your heartstrings anthemically. The band, with help from producer Phil Ek, tones down its sonic assault a couple of notches and allows the music to open up and breathe some. Songs like "Something Bigger, Something Brighter," the desperate-sounding "The Teeth Collector," and "This Is Our Emergency" are epics built around the spiraling guitars of Nathan Thelen and Jay Clark, manic yet tightly controlled drums, fuzzy keyboards, and Andrea Zollo's soaring vocals; she's lost all traces of riot grrrl tunelessness but none of the toughness or power. There are ...
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