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Friendly Foes - Born Radical (album review) |
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
 Rarely on a rock record has the adage "write what you know" been put to such good use as it has on the debut by Friendly Foes, the newest project of Ryan Allen of Thunderbirds Are Now!. Despite some notable exceptions (Art Brut's "Formed a Band", Pavement's "Range Life", Jackson Browne's "The Load-Out" among them), the ratio of great bands to great songs about being in a band is still remarkably small. But astonishingly, this Detroit-area trio has created not just one catchy track about the journeyman's life, but a song cycle of sorts of vigorous, stupidly sloppy power-pop that deals explicitly with the details of life in a rock band. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 March 2009 )
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Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective (album review) |
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
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 It'll be a shame if Lockett Pundt's solo debut gets lost in all the light and heat coming from his main band. But it won't be surprising. In a rare interview, the shy Deerhunter-er told blog BBQCHICKENROBOT that he started recording his album at the beginning of 2007. Since then, Deerhunter has released Cryptograms, the Fluorescent Grey EP, and last year's Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.; lead singer Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound has released Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, plus a staggering number of mp3s, mixes, and non-album tracks. At shows, Pundt can be seen strumming wordlessly, staring toward his effects pedals.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 March 2009 )
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Fever Ray - Fever Ray (album review) |
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
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That the Knife's 2006 breakthrough Silent Shout didn't set the dominoes on a series of similarly grotesque and unnatural sounding imitators is less an indictment on its impact than a comment on its inimitability. The current apex of ten years' collaboration between siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, it's one of a handful of albums from the past decade that one might argue sounded like nothing before it. In the three years since, the Dreijers have treaded lightly, touring and remixing in carefully managed bursts before quietly receding back into silence altogether. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 March 2009 )
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