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On their full-length debut, New York's Parts & Labor trade in a combination of emo, punk, and controlled squalling guitar noise that at times recalls the intensity of the Velvet Underground. The band's frenzied sonic assault on songs like "Timeline" and "A Pleasant Day" frames impassioned vocals, while furious, careening percussion drives the music inexorably forward, most obviously in the chiming "Springtime Hibernation."
Audio Mixer: Scott Norton.
Recording information: Headgear Studios (06/2005).
Photographers: Tod Seelie; Ian Ross.
Parts & Labor: BJ Warshaw (vocals, keyboards, bass instrument, electronics); Dan Friel, Christopher R. Weingarten.
Personnel: Dan Friel (vocals, guitar, keyboards, electronics); Christopher R. Weingarten (drums).
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.48) - "[The] tension, between the din and the tune, makes Friel's songs and his straining voice all the more heroic, the songs more searingly urgent..." Parts & Labor Stay Afraid Songs Stay Afraid Review
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On this immensely appealing debut, SILENT ALARM, the London-based quartet Bloc Party fulfills the promise of their barnstorming 2004 singles "Banquet" and "She's Hearing Voices." Led by magnetic frontman Kele Okereke, the band extracts the most fascinating aspects of the previous 25 years of British indie rock and fuses them into a new entity--complete with smarts and heart--never delving into retro-kitsch or slavish imitation.
Okerere's urgent yelp most often recalls a fired-up incarnation of the Cure's Robert Smith, but the sounds the group creates echo everything from Gang of Four's staccato militarism ("Banquet") to the reverberating guitars of the Chameleons ("Price of Gas"). At times, Bloc Party also recalls the ecstatic soundwashes of early-1990s cult pioneers like Ride ("Plans") and Slowdive ("Compliments"). Lyrically, Okerere tilts toward an endearing adolescent pessimism that, even when the music is less than mopey, gives him away as a goth at heart ("and the ravens are leaving the tower/make your peace"). However, at the end of "Price of Gas," when he proclaims "I can tell you how this ends/We're going to win this," one can hope that Okerere is expressing his confidence in a bright future for his extremely talented band.
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"Any Day Now" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.
For his self-titled debut on J Records, Clive Davis's post-Arista venture, Luther Vandross manages to incorporate enough contemporary production touches to keep himself sounding current, without abandoning the old-school style that made him a star in the '80s. Vandross is the original R&B love man--he's been practicing his singular brand of soul and sensuality since most of today's mack daddies were in short pants, and his experience is apparent here.
Instead of the full-on approach of an R. Kelly, Vandross is content to let his voice glide gently across a subtle bed of funky guitars and keyboards, issuing a quiet-but-confident invitation to love. The melodic hooks that are intrinsic to the album's arrangements (production chores are ably handled by Davis and Vandross) leap out just enough to pull the listener into the music. Once immersed in Luther's world, you'll likely be focused largely on the man's powerful voice and tasteful, emotive singing; that's what it's all about anyhow.
Engineers include: Paul Boutin, Adam Kudzin, Bill Malina.
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