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Reviews 17
Approval 100%
Soundoffs 65
Album Ratings 82
Objectivity 87%
Last Active 07-17-15 5:02 am
Joined 12-09-14
Review Comments 3
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The Beatles, Better Than Ezra, Blur, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Oasis, the Pretty Reckless, the Seatbelts, the Servant, Shiina Ringo, Slow Motion Centerfold, the Sounds,
 | Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle
| 3.0
04.02.15 |  | New Politics New Politics
You'd have to think that an album this hamfisted, this caffeinated, this allusory, and this conscious in its awareness of genre (and band-specific) tropes represents irony in the truest sense of the word. For there is certainly a double audience: those who take this mindnumbingly dumb rock at face value, and those who recognize that—in their treatment of it—New Politics openly derides the very influences they imitate and mocks the commercialization of the alternative sound. Or maybe they're dead serious. I know which explanation I prefer. | 4.0
04.01.15 |  | New Politics A Bad Girl in Harlem
| 2.5
03.30.15 |  | New Order (the best of) New Order
| 3.5
03.29.15 |  | Iggy Pop The Idiot
Sounding very much like a David Bowie album (for obvious reasons), this album delivers funky nigh-mechanical beats and bass with synthesizers and subdued electric guitars and lo-fi vocals, all at a mid-tempo pace. There's a revolutionary spirit in its simplicity, with "Sister Midnight" setting the tone, that is bolstered by driving, hypnotic beats and easy melodies. It's all blasé, ironic, post-modern, and hip in a new wave kind of way. | 3.5
03.14.15 |  | Beck Modern Guilt
Maybe Beck's most accessible album. It doesn't hit 34 minutes, but it's got density in songcraft and lyric wit. Pay attention to the angst and unease hidden behind relatively fast-paced tempos, and catchy, upbeat riffs. For example, "Chemtrails" sports a brooding, contemplative atmosphere that continues even as frenetic drumming and a rapid-fire bassline try to assume control of the song, and "Modern Guilt" employs a classic rock'n'roll beat with jangly guitar lick in a song about feeling alienation in and from the modern world. A very solid album. | 3.5
03.14.15 |  | Better Than Ezra Friction, Baby
Pretty standard post-grunge, and average output for these guys. A couple tracks have odd little things in their favor: the bubbly little chorus of "Long Lost", the bass riff in the verse of "Return of the Post Moderns", and the wahwah lead guitar lick and southern rock feel of "Still Life with Cooley". Instrumental closer "At Ch. Dugaulle, etc." is actually very good and leaves things on a high note. | 2.5
03.14.15 |
 | MS2k Slowly workin' my way through the albums in my collection.
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