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Never shy to throw instruments, samples, and various electronic blips and bleeps to see what sticks to the wall, Electric President open with the hushed vocals on the dreamy and heady "Good Morning, Hypocrite," which is a cross of Moby and Primitive Radio Gods. The duo obviously isn't afraid of using its pop harmonies during the chorus with fabulous results that have you singing along with a childlike innocent. This continues with the precious "Insomnia," which contains a more pronounced roots flavor with a hint of a lush orchestrated arrangement in the background. The group rarely rests on its laurels, with a distant electric guitar marking the opening of the heavier but groove-riddled "Ten Thousand Lives," which has a few shifts musically, soaring before resorting to more "bah dum bah" harmonies. "Grand Machine No. 12," however, is a rather mediocre song that never truly finds its way, just ambling along with the harmonies recalling the lead singer from Wheatus. "Hum" is more direct yet just comes a tad over two minutes with some backward loops in the intro. As the album goes on, this vocal style can be sometimes trying and tedious. The first real head-scratching track has to be "Snow on Dead Neighborhoods," which has a great intro but then resorts to a safer, whispered pop style à la Billy Corgan circa "Disarmed" or the Grapes of Wrath. Then it resurrects itself with a solid hook in the chorus and the high-hat-driven backbeat. The nadir of the record is "Metal Fingers," which starts off like a song by the Cure circa Bloodflowers before some bizarre and asinine rap basically sinks the song. Nonetheless, Electric President mix electric guitar with an occasional thicker wall of sound during "We Were Never Build to Last," which veers from soft to loud and back. A tender, Neil Young-ish lullaby ballad entitled "Farewell" closes this generally good but occasionally uneven album. ~ Jason MacNeil
Audio Mixer: Ben Cooper.
Recording information: 10/2004-05/2005.
Electric President: Alex Kane, Ben Cooper.
Personnel: Ben Cooper (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, sampler); Alex Kane (keyboards, synthesizer, sampler).
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| | National Alligator CD (2005)
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Two pairs of brothers--Aaron and Bryce Dessner (guitars) and Scott and Bryan Devendorf (bass and drums, respectively)--keep things alternately chiming, churning, and appropriately atmospheric. The startling relationship sketch "Karen," for example, rides a light rock pulse dominated by piano and augmented by strings, making it one of the album's shining moments. "All the Wine" turns Berninger's usually dark self-exploration on its head with its semi-ironic self-aggrandizement. ALLIGATOR's 13 tracks testify to the National's standing as one of the more distinctive and absorbing bands ...
| | Various Artists Bargrooves - Black CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Winterpills Light Divides CD (2007)
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When Winterpills released their debut album in the fall of 2005, fans and critics alike scrambled to define what made it one of most significant musical discoveries of the year. Critics met the album with descriptions like, 'Heavy with moments of sheer beauty', 'exquisite vocals', 'deeply moving!heartrending', and 'as textured as the best indie rock around.' Fans put the album in the Top 100 on iTunes and Amazon and made Winterpills a most requested band on radio stations across the country. A feature on NPR's Weekend Edition followed along with performances on syndicated radio shows World Cafe, Mountain Stage and others. Now, The Light Divides ups the ante on the Winterpills' shimmering, resonant, heartbroken pop glory. These songs, as musically sophisticated and delicate as any of songwriter Philip ...
| | Let's Go Sailing Chaos In Order CD (2007)
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Let's Go Sailing seems like a pretty average twee band, what with their penchant for the Smiths, their album's construction paper and crayon artwork, and Shana Levy's vulnerable, often vibrato-less vocals. But those who can get past The Chaos in Order's darling cover art will find an album as full of pathos as anything put out by the would-be Elliott Smiths of the world. Let's Go Sailing sounds a little like Rosie Thomas, but they're better off shelved next to Great Aunt Ida; they're whimsical and gentle, but they're also blessed with a complicating, wry world-weariness. "Sideways" is a great example of this -- it's sugary and pop-oriented, but it's also laced through with Levy's melancholic, somewhat chagrined vocals. In fact, it's Levy's skill as a singer, her ability to meld sweetness with darkness, ...
| | Laura Veirs Saltbreakers CD (2007)
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For her sixth record--aptly titled SALTBREAKERS--Laura Viers crafts a 12-song cycle with every number either lyrically or sonically referencing the ocean. Songs expand and withdraw with a mesmerizing, tidal effect that draws the listener in from the first measure. Viers's impeccable production choices and versatile, stylish vocal delivery are enrapturing, and spike the proceedings with enough aural hooks to keep the oceanic tone from ever getting tired. Featuring star axeman Bill Frisell, SALTBREAKERS is an easy-on-the-ears stunner.
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| | Del Shannon Little Town Flirt/Handy Man CD (1998) (Import) United Kingdom
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Del Shannon's second and third albums appear (after a fashion) together on this Beat Goes On reissue. Actually, what Beat Goes On has re-created is the song lineup of the U.K. version of the Little Town Flirt album, which is a plus, as it contains several songs -- including "Runaway" -- that were repeated from earlier releases on the U.S. version. In either configuration, Little Town Flirt was one of the better rock & roll LPs of its period and holds up well. Shannon and his producers probably thought they were playing it safe by loading the record up with a fair number of covers, including "Dream Baby" and "Runaround Sue"; they never dreamt that one of his other covers from early 1963, of the Beatles' "From Me to You," would have put him for a moment on the cutting edge of music in England (where the record wasn't issued until later) as well as ...
| | Archie Shepp Goin' Home CD (1977) (Import) Denmark
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| | Reggae Anthology: Music Works Classics: The Gussie Clarke Story CD (2001)
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| | Triumph Rock & Roll Machine CD (1977) Remastered
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Rock & Roll Machine was Triumph's second official release in their native Canada, but is known to most fans worldwide as the first, since it was repackaged and resequenced with half of their eponymous debut shortly after the band inked a new global contract with MCA Records. All this became the source of much confusion over the ensuing years, but was finally rectified somewhat in 1999, when the definitive CD reissue of the band's entire catalog restored both albums to their original Canadian track listings. The only downside to this, of course, is that, for a large number of fans, a once formidable album was suddenly transformed into two significantly less spectacular offerings, but such is life. Like many Triumph albums that followed, Rock & Roll Machine opens with a rousing Gil Moore hard rock stomper, "Takes ...
| | Summoning Oath Bound CD (2006)
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| | Mark Nathan Out Of Nowhere CD (2005)
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| | Kenny Werner Serve Or Suffer CD (2008)
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| | Mike Brant Platinum Collection CD (2008) (Import)
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