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COLD WAR KIDS: Mine Is Yours

Cold War Kids is my sense of current groups with one of the strongest personalities of sound. Almost faultless on the first two albums aggressive, pure, inspired and original, ranging in influences from blues revisited at the Jack White and powerful rock of Kings of Leon at their glorious beginnings, so far away now. After Robbers & Cowards (2006) and Loyalty to Loyalty , I must say that the third album by Californian was therefore a natural part of me rock out expected in 2011. So with that in unmeasured enthusiasm I threw myself in listening This third album Mine is Yours . And that's where the nightmare begins ... From the first notes of the first song gives the album its title, it stinks for the tube stage with languid woooOOOoohhwOOOooohhh introduced. That does not bode well ... Certainly, often it bearable, but the voice of Nathan Willett has lost his strength, his rage, his guts, his neck ..... in favor of a nice bright pop voice that multiplies the theatrics in the treble, lacking aggression (eg compare Bulldozer on this album We Used To Vacation or Hang Me Up To Dry on their first album) and made up of texts silly ("I can feel your arms around me, hold me closer, hold me tightly," thank you's guys ...). There is much more new, sought after, we are served as appetizer for the album of a group usually a piece inspired model easy, predictable. You almost want to introduce the song with a "écoooute is on NRJ", as it would for the latest Maroon 5, as was done for Use Somebody Kings of Leon the once brilliant too ...

I do not say so using the comparison since reading the first reviews of this album, I learn that CWK are committed to this album the producer of these Kings of Leon, with the same that they will for some years now to become more "mainstream". Such clarity in terms speaks for itself and I would discourage almost hear the rest of the album. Same intention, same result (I wish I could say the same punishment). Each piece is a new disappointment when we remember pieces raw, authentic and powerful as the huge We Used To Vacation , the furious Hang Me Up To Dry , the striking Something Is Not Right With Me , Hair Down , Passing The Hat , and j 'in the process. So much talent, personality, soul sacrificed on the altar of popularity and the general public. In trying too hard to please, the Cold War Kids are on this album is guilty of having reduced their character, their traits to have smooth, even giving the impression of failing to seek, you activate the autopilot. They wanted with this album to fulfill stadiums, personally I would have preferred they preserve and enrich their particular style, even stick to good old shabby but well-filled rooms of an informed public and a connoisseur rather than giving the good old formula guitars + stuffed voice echo / chorus pop pissing heady, but certainly nice real interest, without genius ... Again the analogy with the last KoL is striking.

Let all the same finding in this mud inform one or two pieces of bravery that could save everything. Admittedly, the dark stew of introduction does not provide good to listen objectively the rest ... My indulgence is heading towards the particular song (I took some time to fill in the blank what was this part of the article) Cold Toes On The Cold Floor presenting the relics, the remains of the smoldering these talented Californians. One could also cite Sensitive Kid the least bad ... makes you realize that very often the intro is catchy and rather successful ( Unless Mine Is Yours where for once the color is really announced at the outset), and it is that then we have almost the right to own property of ColdPlay ...

What about when Californians after the Cold War Kids album? If we stay there, it is a group with little interest in music other than that of putting a ready-made tunes in the head, filling stadiums and lighters to light (witness the unbearable Skip The Charades ) ... Personally, I prefer to escape the pain, tell me, after all, despite its share of turds all is not so bad in this record and remember above all, for the sake of intellectual hygiene, what they are able to produce large before. I can only urge you to do the same ...

Mr. Lucas

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Inland Empire - David Lynch

After an hour, nothing is wrong. Laura Dern confuses, or rather feels confused, a line of dialogue from the film in which she plays the reality and not yet occurred a troubled history with the actor of that film. Times are mixed, whether past, present, future, hypothetical or imagined. Times are feared and age, they escape with the lines they had intended. An event occurred earlier takes on its meaning (its full dimension of omen): it was wrong to regard as a comedy scene of the eruption Grace Zabriskie in neighboring bulky in palatial home of Laura Dern. His wife's words senile begin to swell. His focus opens up a world unknown. His speech was contagious: his speech, which was an event film, is perhaps the secret engine of this film. Grace Zabriskie

is the neighbor of Laura Dern. She lives next door to her. It is a frontier that Laura Dern will eventually pass. Inland Empire is a film about adjacency. David Lynch has taken the time to juxtapose images, figures. There is the slow sitcom family rabbit, there is the script of the film that Laura Dern is spinning, there is Poland, the jealousy of a husband, the flight of another with a circus, the gang babes, woman the screwdriver, a nun begging God ("chasing the dream of evil that grips my heart), a confessional, and a girl who looks all that crying in front of his television screen. The worlds are next to each other. But these games cons-fields improbable that Lynch has become the king since Lost Highway, they will encroach on each other and mingle. So that Inland Em worst become the story of a woman with rabbits in the head.

The film's strength is its fundamental lack of seriousness. Nothing is serious, and everything is important. We watch Laura Dern die on the pavement, ripped open by the girl with a screwdriver, then forget it, preferring to listen to Japan on crack talking about his friend who has a monkey, a blonde wig, and a hole between her vagina and bowel . Perforated walls are completed. And if the film takes in turn the appearance of a sentimental drama, thriller and horror film, its true direction is the holiday. Hidden under a final party where every face generic brewed by the film come together to dance. The fingers and slamming the world over.

is true of Poland as Hollywood: This is just a backdrop, a place where wandering psyche, clueless, frightened by his own power. Discover that a rabbit in the head is no small matter. And we would like to meet this girl who looks at us with tears on her TV screen. Laura Dern embraces him, kissing him and free him from his office video surveillance. The girl joined the sets of the mind, encounter figures who populated his screen. She is more compassionate envelope - or rather, it is perhaps, but it is inside this time. It does not protect it permeates. David Lynch has built Inland Empire with a big house where the most disjointed figures could live together. The scenes filmed in Lodz seem to happen in the garden of a villa Hollywood. The exoticism expected (Lynch turns to the East!) Was changed into a strange familiarity.


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Hai shang chuan qi - I wish I knew - Jia Zhang-Ke A letter

Earlier this ultra-chic collection tearful testimony, we heard a lion roar. The lion is Jia Zhang-Ke. The cage is his film.
filmmaker sitting on his reputation filming people sitting on their childhood memories. Intimate and the universal should arise, but strangely the opposite happens. Perhaps because the universal is sought from the beginning. Announced, no one expects more. For
Jia Zhang-Ke is already known historical figure in his country. So, not too much that it shows, he films of other filmmakers, and presents excerpts from other films than his. The film has accompanied the history of China. But this film merely commemorate. Autofellatoire fantasy realized.
A lion caged, really. Jia Zhang-Ke is a filmmaker who knows how to make plans. The problem is that he does not know where to put them. His camera is around people he asked to catch a new light, a shadow, a different perspective. And his subject eludes him. The confidences of each other vaguely disguise a test architecture, first-class. But they are there. The viewer experiences them.
way out, there were those who wanted to find this section of the world where the film was in context, those who said "China, what amazing country!" and then said no more nothing, those who had found a little embarrassed some interesting stories and others less. Jia Zhang-Ke puts us in position on the wrong student. Teaching half, his film is a half movie. Sometimes there are beautiful things. Sometimes there are too beautiful. Nothing is really in its place. Neither the director nor the spectators.
The theme of this woman walking in silence through the streets of Shanghai is a distressing process. Between two words, a pause. Between two closed rooms, a view from outside the city. And workers that move, the static shots. And the people sitting, plans that turn. We saw more subtle. This is even
not a problem of subtlety. It's just that these methods show the boredom of film theory. The pleasures are no longer strangers.

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to Uncle Boonmee - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

A letter, a place. The camera is operating in place, while in voiceover man reads a letter to Uncle Boonmee that he never knew, but he has read the book, which is the subject of the film he would do.

This letter was read twice by two different voices. And if the camera First take the same paths, at the second reading she manages to escape the house and shoot the landscape. A man appears, dressed as a soldier, a dog, a garden, several soldiers in the garden as a capsule from which emanates an alien smoke.

The first reading was a rehearsal before the second reading opens a little more scope contained in this figure what Uncle Boonmee. The images are born, prepared by the repetition of this letter, the address to the unknown.

A letter to Uncle Boonmee is the site of a film in the making.

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The Pixies, goblins rockers Boston

made famous by the song " Where Is My Mind? "in the soundtrack for Fight Club (the famous final scene where everything explodes while Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter are side by side) is unfortunately often just what the novice knows this great band. Let us give to Caesar what belongs to him and Let 's talk in context.

The Pixies can claim to act as figurehead of alternative rock. Their formation in 1986, in years often regarded as sterile, with a rock that looks after the punk seems to be a timing error. Certainly, the decade has its share of artists who are worth the detour ( INXS, Sonic Youth , REM, Violent Femmes , Gang of Four , Mudhoney, The Fall , Orange Juice ...). But how many can claim an influence comparable to that of the Pixies?

This fascination was perhaps matched only by the improbability of their meeting, tangle of unlikely son of fate. Charles Thompson IV, aka Black Francis (lead singer) first meets Joey Santiago (future guitarist) with whom he shares a room at the university. A friendship develops between these two music lovers who decide later to form a rock band. They then pass an advertisement in a newspaper to find a bassist, Kim Deal and arrives at their door. The lady in question can not play the bass too bad we will not stop at this little detail. Perhaps because his spirit is visible, and his strong character. Or because it is the only one to have given Following their announcement (it must be said that "a bassist who liked both folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and the group Hüsker Dü," it does not necessarily short street). No longer lack a drummer and a name. For the first stroke of luck, Kim remembers across someone at a wedding: it will be David Lovering. For the latter, consulting a dictionary will do.

After a few rehearsals in the garage of David, the new line-up released a good debut EP Come On Pilgrim in 1987. " Caribou " Black Francis erected as a master in his discipline, as capable of a voice that calmed a falsetto tone angry and bitter. "Nimrod's Son " illustrates his obsession for unfailing biblical themes, while "The Holiday Song " discusses masturbation.

In 1988, a bomb detonates in a rock desolate landscape. Surfer Rosa is , the Pixies' first album, which will give them eternal gratitude. Not content to enjoy the rare talent of its singer, he also owed much of its success to its synergy with Kim, not so much for his bass playing (for also a marked improvement), as his voice used in addition to Black, establishing an electric atmosphere, as on " River Euphrates." It is also she who writes and sings " Gigantic " piece praised by the crowds, a sort of alter-ego " Where Is My Mind? , "written and sung by Black. Let's talk again " Something Against You " full of rage as instrumental voice in a style that pretty hardcore, "Oh My Golly! "which shows the indomitable spirit of the drummer, or the joyous" Vamos "sung in English.
What emerges above all Surfer Rosa is the alternation between quiet verses and choruses unbridled style little or not operated at the time that we recognize their paternity, and who will become the trademark group.

But the band of elves do not stop there, and released the following year Doolittle, who, along with Surfer Rosa , argues generally first place in the heart of the fans of the Pixies. Whereas with the first, we were in a style quite dirty and gross, the second is much cleaner as a result of a change of producer, and an increase in budget. Although adept of lo-fi, my preference is still to Doolittle, full of unexpected wonders.
"Debaser " introduces the album in between the aggressiveness of Black to the gentle songs of Kim-cons. "Wave of Mutilation " is full of charm elusive, and conveys an almost palpable emotion. This theme of suffering, often operated by Black, also appears in "I Bleed . Very danceable pop nugget taking the refrain, "Here Comes Your Man " is the opposite. " Dead" plays on the sudden change of pace, " Monkey Gone To Heaven ", another well known piece of the Pixies, speaks of world destruction by man. More than Surfer Rosa everything is well done and well constructed in this album, and songs like "There Goes My Gun " attest. It concludes with "Silver " moving duet between Black and Kim, and "Gouge Away " fine example of genius rebel group.

Everything seems to be going well, but tensions arise between Francis and Kim. The first is quite methodical and serious, while the second is beset with problems of drugs and alcohol. For some concerts, she arrives late, for others it is no longer standing. Pixies Announce logically pause, during which each will go about their business. Kim then will reconnect with his childhood band, the Breeders (which includes a member of Throwing Muses), to release a debut album, Pod .

After this break, the group meets for a new album in 1990, Bossanova . Accordingly pranks Kim, he will this time much more in person before the Black, author and singer of all songs. If his presence as a counterpoint to that of Kim is sometimes regrettable, this does not affect the quality of the whole, which, despite all these tensions, remains an excellent bill. Main
Evolution: the songs that characterized bestial Surfer Rosa and Doolittle here are virtually absent, except for "Rock Music "And his words incomprehensible (" Your Mouth's A Mile Away ). But the group took the opportunity to concoct melodies and funky riffs, like on " Ana" and her haunting guitar line. The bass did a great job on " Is She Weird , and the battery gives full plume" Down to the Well . " The Happening" is blowing: the voltage air never seems to stop, but it is suddenly broken when Black changed his tone (but how is it?) to pronounce "Beneath the sky ... . Let's talk again " Hang Wire" successful alternating between rage and lull in the song Black and " Havalina " which concludes Bossanova very melodious.

With the tour that followed, tensions between Kim and Black remain. There is even talk of an impending separation of the group. It was not counting the production, which, for better or for worse, managed to convince them to work together one last time. One might have feared that this was the famous album too, which confirms the death of the inspiration of a group. Yet beneath their pointed hats, our elves hid a few surprises. Rumors claimed that the musical style of the Pixies had evolved into heavy metal. If were quickly reversed with the release of Trompe Le Monde in 1991, some titles are nonetheless marked by its violence. This in rabies Surfer Rosa resurfaced, as in "Planet of Sound . The title track from the album explores a little every direction, and placing on the effects of removal guitars and reverb to make an effective seduction. "Alec Eiffel " is a successful tribute to the famous tower in Paris, which has always fascinated Black, while "Head On " is a cover of The dynamic Jesus and Mary Chain. "The etter to Memphis" is one of the few love songs (with "La La Love You ") composed by the Pixies. The festival continues with " Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons ", which is characterized by disturbing sounds almost imperceptible back plan. " Motorway to Roswell " is a great pop song and "The Navajo Know " is a slick rich atmosphere and uninhibited, which sounds sadly the end of the album ...

The influence of Pixies will resonate with many musicians, first and foremost there is Kurt Cobain, an admirer of Surfer Rosa and admits readily that his " Smells Like Teen Spirit " would never have without them. In this regard David Bowie says elsewhere: "I was very disappointed the day I learned that the Pixies were separating. What a mess ... I already imagined conquer the world. When I heard Nevermind Nirvana for the first time I was very angry. The dynamics of the pieces was a raid total Pixies. I so enjoyed seeing the Pixies and Sonic Youth at the top. "If we still give a name, for example, include Damon Albarn, who admits he wanted to sound like the Pixies in the early days of Blur.

With the separation of the Pixies, so this is the end of a legend. Well, almost. In First, because members will be reformed for concerts from time to time. On the other hand, because they continue to express their talent in solo projects.
Black Francis began a successful career under the pseudonym Frank Black, listen for example, " You Is not Me" or " Headache. Kim Deal will continue on her adventure she had begun with the Breeders, notably in 1993 and released the hit album Last Splash , which contains the songs " Cannonball" and "Divine Hammer . To date, she still officiates.

The prospect of a new Pixies album is currently not on the agenda. However, Kim and Charles never lost the desire to make music. The Pixies have many beautiful things, and they have never been as much as when these two were able to agree. We would have liked to see this synergy work again for one last wonder ...


Frank A.

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Sharon Jones "Soul Sister Number One"

She, I do not know why I have not spoken before, much less why I had foolishly forgotten when setting my best of the 2000s. I really am a bad girl. This was particularly unfortunate that I had seen him live at Nancy Jazz Pulsations there are three or four years and I had taken a monumental slap. Repair the outrage.

The title of his latest album, "I Learned The Hard Way" sounds like a confession, Sharon Jones shit. During all these years of purgatory to bide his time, to be told by managers that label was "too small, too fat, too black and too old," she tried the most improbable day jobs: guardian prison to Rikers Island, conveyor funds to Wells Fargo ("I wore a 38. I was a good shooter). In 1996, Gabriel Roth, a young producer from New York soul, now boss of the label Daptone Records (Remember the name: it is becoming a magic formula in future years), three singers looking for a session recording with Lee Fields (also from veteran soul Daptone Records). Sharon Jones decides to give us a Keith Moon. She tells him, bully, he can turn two: "I can do all three voices myself. Thou shalt save money and I'll win again". Roth is in love and decides up a project around it, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, where he held the bass. All this confirms the obvious: if you want to sing the suffering he must have suffered.

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are hands on a raw debut album ("Dap Dippin 'With The Dap Kings) but which inadequately guns away from orthodoxy funk to be really totally amiable. Things improved considerably with the second album, crossed by a Brownian funk still at times ("Your Thing Is A Drag," "My Man Is A Mean Man"), but also wonders more surprising, including an unbelievable version of "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie (proof once again of bridges between black music, folk and country), a hilarious duet with Lee Fields, his now colleague Daptone Records ( stranded in your love ") and generally in the groove you want, here's ( " how long do I Have to Wait For You "," all over again, "how do I let a good man down" ). But it was really with "100 Days, 100 Nights" they explode. It must be said with bombs (or almost all composed by Roth) as " keep on looking," "Tell Me", "answer me", "100 Days, 100 Nights " they persisted in confidentiality would have been a pretty fucking scandal. They flowing 150,000 copies, which is an excellent score for an indie label (to give a token, the first Mgmt has sold 2 million copies, which was laughable even 10 years ago) .

With "I Learned The Hard Way" They continue on their merry way, with a total control, they dig in her girls group (" give it back ') in the ultra-orchestrated soul (and even a little firefighter on" the game gets old ") or that they give a Favorites grounds of gender, cheatin soul ("I Learned The Hard Way"), each time, it's ideal. Never anything superfluous. It's concise, taut, sophisticated, and it kicks ass ("She Is not child no more" ). As for Jones, she is supreme. We spoke openly about her as a "female James Brown." Some call also "soul sister number one." I must say that being born as James big in Augusta, Georgia, comparison of herself. But at a time when some of us are trying to get Colin Bailey Rae for a new Minnie Ripperton , these might seem overly flattering compliments. And well absolutely not.

A James Brown so feminine. This is not true. We find in it these authoritarian ways to request a break, those "wait a minute" wait, this spectacular scene incandescent common Godfather of Soul. It also has its ferocity. We also find it in the humorous banter of Millie Jackson ("money"). The dap kings, I do not have much to say except that he is probably the best soul-funk band since the heyday of the JB's and Meters . They sound great. It is to them that Winehouse has her "Back to Black" (interviewed in 2007 on the latter, Jones went out fangs: "they jumped On Our car!" . Remember that Amy Winehouse, among two courses of rehab fail nevertheless wrote 2.3 huge songs. If it was a simple forgery, we would know)

Let's be clear: There is no servility home, just love a taste for black music of the big time. And let no one tell me about vintage, just the word evokes the old Ikea furniture purchased by God knows who. Confuse authenticity with the picturesque easy, it's not the kind I see in its exoticism, that is to say, being a tourist. It is not whether it's old school "The question is not here. Roth says it well: "We Do not Have a retro approach. We are not referencing old music. We do not fetish-ize equipment vintage gold afro wigs, gold bell-bottoms. Our music sounds authentic Because It Is authentic. It's real people making real music. From the Depths of Our Souls. From our heart of hearts. When it's real, You Do not Have to Worry About That "any of" retro revival like "kind of shit." much for the vintage. Moreover, even lorqu'on praises "authenticity" of a soulman, it looks suspicious to me: What is a soulman "authentic"? A black Atlanta or New Orleans? This is not the extraction is important is the degree of faith, aggressiveness with which we embrace the trick. Sharon Jones does not push the tradition she beats her at his own game it crushes with her big black ass.

The truest thing about Sharon Jones was told by the magazine Refresh "In the tradition of the great soul diva, the great Sharon Jones is one that suggests that legends are created yet." Exactly; It is not emulating anyone. It posits itself as a new reference level Mavis Staple s , Aretha Franklin and, of Etta James , all these brilliant predecessors. And today is that it happens; we do not realize what a miracle this girl, you do not realize that we are all very lucky.

Sharon Jones: One of the best reasons to live in 2010 that can be found. With the films of James Gray , Philip Roth, Richard Hawley, Jiro Taniguchi, Lea Seydoux and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Vianney G.

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I now have a little brother and he is so cute ... his name is Felix, he was born on January 6 and my father said it was a little king ...

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Smiths

Although often misunderstood or seen only "name" (in other words not at all), Smiths Group is an extremely interesting as it is, musically and in terms of strictly chronological hinge between two periods two basic branches of rock, namely the 70s punk (the Clash among others) and the Britpop of the 90s (Oasis, Supergrass ...).

Founded in 1982 by the pair Steven Patrick Morrissey / Johnny Marr and separated in 1987, Smiths will still be able to come out four albums have all met with complete success undeniable (the first album simply titled Smiths is ranked second among the British charts with 300,000 copies sold) and become in just five short years a group reference for many British artists who were hatched in the next two decades.

The Smiths have always been keen to retain some form of authenticity and to radically break away from current musical styles and in poor taste, who saw the day and quickly became popular in the 80's (dance, disco) synthesizers taking away their music and choose a simple name, even though most groups of the same period were adopting names interminable ridiculous, pompous and clumsy (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Electric Light Orchestra ...). It is indeed paradoxical that reason (this will remain true to their roots) that the group split up in 1987, the duo Morrissey & Marr feeling as trapped in the musical style of The Smiths, too impervious to outside influences. It is not wrong after four successful albums in his relatively unchanged, there was a little goes around the issue, and a fifth might seem superfluous to disappoint, even repetitive. So skilfully that the Smiths were separated before the decline and fatal dung.

Morrissey's singing, because otherwise remarkable self-taught, is characterized by an elegant voice (certainly more than the hair of the person) and plaintive, almost melancholy monotony of a deliberate and measured, and personifies alone the band's sound, but definitely rock angry aggression characteristic of the punk era that preceded and accompanied. The instrumental has surprisingly for his melodies very seventies or late sixties (with a game and a guitar sound very Byrds the use of Rickenbacker guitars), but played with new arrangements, more typical of the 80s, 90s or even warning, varying inputs and thus combining the influences of three or four decades.

The band's first single in chronological order, before the first album, was Hand In Glove a strong headline, compelling and representative of the overall work of the group, with a harmonious balance between low marked without excess (more would not have agreed to such a sound, less would have seemed bland), catchy guitars and vocals and dark beat rudimentary and effective all complemented by a slight echo and a subtle reverb. Of the four albums, The Smiths , Meat is Murder , The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come , none are particularly distinguished . On each of the founding duo and group creative Morrissey / Marr offers the same performance and steady operating the same ingredients at most e Does not without a certain panache. If the knife to her throat and up against the wall, I was nevertheless highlight some discs than others, my preference, although slight, would probably for first and last album, The Smiths (with perfect Hand in Glove cited above, This Charming Man and What Difference Does It Makes ) and Strangeways Here We Come (listen in particular securities Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before ) because they measure the consistency of group's quality of their inception to their separation and his fidelity to his original style.

If we listen more detail the four albums mentioned above, one can not really be surprised to learn that, although this did nothing obvious on first listen, the Smiths were strongly inspired and paved the way for bands like Blur, Oasis, Pulp and Supergrass yet (which also participate in the recording of the album The Smiths Is Dead, tribute to the Smiths and trained for these occasions by several groups 90), and even a little further to the beginnings of the Indie Rock Pete Doherty since some consider the Smiths and Morrissey in particular as one of his major musical references, whether in the Libertines or Babyshambles.

Lucas

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Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals / Odd

group difficult to classify risky without the use of expressions as obscure interminable including my favorite, New Eastern-psych-snap-rock-folk-gospel (???), understand experimental folk-rock to make simple (but still somewhat suggestive), this training is a native of Brooklyn since 2007 his little way, appearing on the net
through videos "Take Away Show" and festivals in addition to Atlantic and MGMT alongside England in particular. The story is not without relevance here, since the musical journey of Yeasayer through his two albums (the same number as MGMT) seems diametrically opposed to that of New York duo. Indeed, after the worldwide success of the very pop Oracular Spectacular (which deserves, I think, to be heard a little further than the overused and now sadly commonplace Kids and Time to Pretend , including with Weekend Wars and The Youth ), MGMT delivered a second album (Congratulations) much more experimental, more interesting I found elsewhere (listen Flash Delirium , It's Working , I Found A Whistle ) and therefore necessarily having less success with the plebeian base. At the same time, Yeasayer spent their first album ( All Hour Cymbals ) released in 2007 and j'affublerais, in addition to several nicknames mentioned above, the adjective awesome, fundamentally new, sometimes surprising, at one second (Old Blood, 2010) sounding more electropop making use recurring sound effect betraying the influence of the duo's success on New Yorkers' small Yeasayer. How to interpret this strange change of direction? Awareness of a talent and desire to make themselves known to as many people with an album more accessible? Opportunism caused by the current wave Eletro-rock?

us is reassuring, however, it does not pass from masterpiece to the turd. Indeed, if the melodies are more pop, instrumental accompaniment more electronic and less refined effects, we recover the leg and the strong personality of the group sound on each piece of Old Blood . You always have the right to a confusing pop, baroque rococo without (border of kitsch, but the right side), even stratospheric air, including ONE , another group's success in Album . Wallop Heart also for songs Madder red for its haunting vocalizations and its ambience (at least I felt) "apache dance around the fire" , and Ambling Alp for his boundless energy. Admittedly, it's very pop, sometimes with sounds, liquid sound of bubbles bursting, especially Ambling Alp (they had to listen Time to Pretend and especially its intro a few times) but nothing to say over there, it's still fresh, new, rich, it feels good and it does not look like the album flared in one week, one who listens distractedly on a computer for the dishes to pass the time. We feel a real research behind, and everything remains consistent and very enjoyable listening.

Ultimately, although at first necessarily surprised by the transition and not clear the turn at right angles made between the two albums, we finally find the complementary from a group that does not seem locked into a style but explore, seek novelty, progress (the future will tell) throughout its journey. It is a bit forced prefer All Hour Cymbals , simpler, more streamlined, less electronics, and especially the brand personality of Yeasayer with more force, which drowns least in electronic effects, but not to throw in Old Blood, quite the contrary. To understand this change of music, including the very air stream 2080 , their best song in my opinion: arpeggio guitar, backing vocals, the bass, drums, everything seems to fly in all directions lavishly when the chorus begins, after a first verse and beating retaining more energy. I take this opportunity to discuss a piece of their debut which is not on any of their albums but that is also worth visiting, Tightrope , with a very tribal drum beat (n ' see none of the connotations of the word bad taste today clothed in the collective imagination, we could use the word shaman, can be a bit much for the occasion ...), harmonies and double voice very neat.

It is all finished so that the end of this article was more to discover in this group resolutely unpronounceable name to comment on the latest album by Yeasayer, I therefore recommend strongly and contained all the same in 15th place in the ranking of the best NME albums of the year and the 22nd-highest ranking Inrockuptibles, which offers an early guarantee of its quality and that of its composers.

Mr. Lucas

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Welcome to Blood Gun Club

In an article in 1982, Lester Bangs lapidary crucified the Gun Club: "A dull Attempt to punk robert johnson blues. Ben there, once will not hurt, it was all wrong. Because if there was a little bit of logic, the Gun Club would also be recognized that, at random, the Stooges and the Clash.

There have always been renovators blues: everything has been called the British blues boom from 63, Captain Beefheart, Canned Heat, Allman Brothers, then in the 80's Gun Club, Stevie Ray Vaughan Nick Cave, Spencer Blues later, and finally the White Stripes. But there are different ways of conceiving, music suggestive at first, Spartan, any tension, the blues came through Clapton, Allman Brothers and others to a mere excuse for demonstrations of bravery guitar; Cream, for example, great band when he walked away from it ("White Room ", " Tales of Brave Ulysses ") was the most calamitous when he gave the Blues "authentic" (and this version of castrated " Spoonful "the great Howlin Wolf in" Fresh Cream "). Nothing like that at the Gun Club.

When released in 1981, "Fire of Love" had to happen like a miracle. Because at the time, it's really not joy; Dylan made his Christian rock, Neil Young made techno (...), black music is almost dead (with the notable exception of Prince and Chic) and we see this happen drum sounds bloated (battery is actually saying a lot since we only hear the snare drum), these stupid low and disgusting these keyboards everywhere. Oh, and sax solos that make you laugh today. All these icons of previous years, there's little that good Bruce and Tom Waits who did not appear next to their pumps. One can imagine the relief felt by everyone that arrives when the stampede General Gun Club, all things considered, is the major group of the day (Who else?).

When the Cramps, who dedicate Jeffrey Lee Pierce " For the love of ivy ", then draw a degenerate version of rockabilly (although I always found the Cramps at best and it's fun stopped there), returned to the Gun Club ancestral blues, it mixes with the violent urgency of punk, inventing something totally new.

The first two albums ("Fire of Love" and "Miami"), are really hell, full of off-center blues, sexy, angry, too, all dominated by the voices of Pierce, incredible, not nice for a cent , screaming, blame, great. Looks like a bad Tom Verlaine. Even the covers are legendary. The production, which ruined the three-quarters of the album at the time, here is impeccable. The sound is playful, the super chick guitar slides, the rhythm section, straight and tight. And anthology titles enchainent to each other, whether pickup sound of Tommy Johnson, Leadbelly ("John Hardy "), Robert Johnson ("Preachin the Blues"), Creedence including rock swampy clearly traumatized Pierce or the latter's own compositions, navigating between obscenity delighted " Jack on Fire" and incantations of envapées " She's like heroin to me " or "Watermelon Man," forgetting not the passage of scouring mythology blues ("Ghost on the highway," "Devil in the Woods").

And when engaged in some morrisonneries (that's me. It's bad but that's me) is great ("Fire of Love", the gigantic "Mother of earth "and the hoots of slide guitar," Brother and sister "). Moreover Jeffrey Lee Pierce also shared with Morrison taste for "erratic behavior" a little bigoted euphemism, meaning he came on stage drunk. And as Morrison in his best days (that is to say when he was very drunk and very funny), he indulged in endless soliloquies drunkard, in which he most often abused the public. I would have liked to see it.

Next comes "The Las Vegas Story" which some prefer to produce more robust and cleaner than the previous two. In the end, it does not matter so much, the compositions are always so stunning (the stoogien " Stranger in Our Town " acoustics "secret fires " "my dreams" "Give Up The Sun" ...) and times (a haunted version of "My Man's Gone Now" from Gershwin's "The masterplan "Free jazz of Pharaoh Sanders) still reflect a knowledge of music quite monumental. From there, life becomes a big Pierce anything from personnel changes, hepatitis, and various addictions, what's gangrene ... "career."

I have not listened to the following albums but it seems they are the first three need be (I just chop "Miami" and "Las Vegas Story", it's been awhile since I had not been also happy to buy a cd). I would listen to others and I'll talk if it's worth it. Later, Jon Spencer Blues (several albums have been reprinted recently) and the White Stripes will not forget to pay tribute to predecessors whom they owe so much. Even if Jack White seems very healthy view of what was crazy Jeffrey Lee Pierce.


Vianney G.

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