The Ting Tings

We Started Nothing

June 3, 2008

The debut album by Salford's The Ting Tings comes hot on the heels of their No.1 single "That's Not My Name", a nugget of pop gold that comes on like a genetic splicing of Toni Basil's "Micky" and The Knack's "My Sharona". The bulk of We Started Nothing follows a similar formula, navigating a path between the smart, angular indie of CSS, Bonde Do Role, et al and the pop mainstream. Here and there, they pull it off perfectly: the stutter-rap of "Fruit Machine" sees vocalist Katie White leading on some poor sap with sultry charisma and lip-gloss sass, while the excellent "Shut Up and Let Me Go" is snappy dance-punk in the spirit of Blondie's "Rapture" or Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". Elsewhere, they branch out with mixed results. "We Walk" builds from quiet flourishes of piano into a surprisingly steely manifesto: "Smash the rest up/Burn it down/Put us in the corner cause we're into ideas", sneers White. Rather less good is "Traffic Light", a light, jazzy number that employs a number of somewhat forced driving metaphors to describe a relationship hit the skids. Still, it's a debut with promise, and a string of good singles is nothing to be sniffed at. -–Louis Pattison


1. Great DJ 3:24
2. That's Not My Name 5:11
3. Fruit Machine 2:54
4. Traffic Light 2:59
5. Shut Up And Let Me Go 2:53
6. Keep Your Head 3:23
7. Be The One 2:57
8. We Walk 4:06
9. Impacilla Carpisung 3:39
10. We Started Nothing : 6:24



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Booka Shade

The Sun and & Neoan Light

May 26, 2008

2008 two CD set, a mature work that tackles the contradictions between our day-life and our night-life, between the organic and the artificial, the individual and the crowd, the inner and the outer. This eternal tension is reflected not just in the range and complexity of the album's moods, but also its mingling of acoustic and electronic textures. Booka Shade's roots lie in club music, but for this album, they adopt a song-based approach, and expertly weave real instruments and voices with superbly detailed electronics to create a futuristic but very organic sound. 2008. --

1. Outskirts 4:53
2. Duke 4:32
3. Dusty Boots 3:25
4. Control Me 5:08
5. Solo City 4:34
6. Charlotte 4:31
7. Numbers (Radio Mix) 3:26
8. The Sun & The Neon Light 4:29
9. Sweet Lies 3:58
10. Karma Car (Album Version) 4:17
11. Psychameleon 4:56
12. Planetary 4:08
13. Comacabana 4:33
14. You Don't Know What You Mean To Me (J's Lullaby) 5:12


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Metro Station

Metro Station


September 18, 2007

If one was to make a musical time capsule of 2007 a collection of sounds and lyrics reflecting the energy of our moment it might be a good idea to drop in a copy of METRO STATION’s eponymous debut record. Sure, the band is young (OK, still in fake ID territory), but Metro Station’s brazenly catchy dance hooks and yearning lyrics perfectly capture what it feels like to be a teenager in today’s culture. This is a band that was weaned on and made by the Internet, whose dedicated legion of online fans made them MySpace stars in a matter of weeks. This is a band that caught the early attention of ALTERNATIVE PRESS (earning a spot as one of the magazine’s 22 Best Underground Bands), along with URB and TEEN VOGUE magazines, months before they signed to a label. Metro Station is a band that, despite their youth, have made their way from greasy mall jobs to recording with Motion City Soundtrack in the same year. They are truly a product of their times and their generation, and they are ready to take advantage of it.


1. Seventeen Forever (Album Version) 2:56
2. Control (Album Version) 3:20
3. Kelsey (Album Version) 3:37
4. Shake It (Album Version) 3:00
5. Wish We Were Older (Album Version) 2:55
6. Now That We're Done (Album Version) 3:28
7. True To me (Album Version) 2:52
8. Tell Me What To Do (Album Version) 3:09
9. California (Album Version) 2:42
10. Disco (Album Version)


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Modeselektor

Happy Birthday

September 11, 2007


This record describes the main focus of Berliners Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary: hang out together all the time. Both dudes will become fathers very soon, almost simultaneously -- happy birthday! But back to their labor-pains: After 111 slashings and burnings across dancefloors from Sydney to Iceland, and driven by the ungovernable spirit of gold-diggers, Gernot and Szary holed up in their mobile Airstream caravan recording studio in order to give birth to Happy Birthday!. The conditions of production were slightly adverse, but thanks to digital transfer technology and a mild winter in Berlin, it all came together nicely in the end. The repertoire of Happy Birthday! runs from hard rap with a French kick to dubstep in the broadest sense. New urban word scraps attempt to describe Modeselektor's style: Eurocrunk, continental grime, tech-rap... the list is long. Mr. Bronsert and Mr. Szary don't like to put a genre sticker on their music anyway, so they don't really care. They just do great music, no matter what style. And another good thing -- their tendency to not take themselves seriously is unbowed, so this album is great fun for everybody -- moms, dads, siblings, grandparents, etc.


1. Goddspeed
2. 2000007
3. Happy Birthday
4. Let Your Love Grow
5. B.M.I.
6. Em Ocean
7. Sucker Pin
8. The First Rebirth
9. The Dark Side Of the Frog
10. The Dark Side Of the Sun
11. Black Block
12. Edgar
13. Hyper Hyper
14. Late Check-Out
15. The Wedding Toccata Theme
16. The White Flash
17. Deboutonner


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Moby

Last Night

March 31, 2008

After three albums that seemed to find Moby in some sort of creative stasis, Last Night sees the once-restless DJ/producer changing the record and returning to one of his first loves: the heaving dancefloors of his native New York. Soulful, uplifting piano rave is the order of the day here, and while some hallmarks of Play remain--Moby still has a fascination for long, tearful synth lines and sampled vocals, which he drops in here and there, seemingly to yield the maximum emotional response--Last Night still feels like a clean slate. "I Like to Move in Here" shimmies along on a languid house beat that doffs a cap to early hip-hop in the shape of a cameo from MC Grandmaster Caz, one of the writers of "Rapper's Delight", while "Everyday It's 1989" is the sort of overdriven, ecstatic piano house that Moby perfected on his 1995 classic Everything Is Wrong. There's more guest spots in the shape of British MC Aynzli, the Nigerian 419 Squad and Sylvia from dark NYC disco band Kudu, but the most impressive thing about Last Night is the peaks that Moby can reach when he's working alone: see the grand, emotive swell of "Sweet Apocalypse", cold synths and driving beats that, were it released by James Murphy, would be hailed as genius--and rightfully, too.--Louis Pattison



1. Ooh Yeah 5:18
2. I Love To Move In Here 4:43
3. 257.zero 3:37
4. Everyday It's 1989 3:40
5. Live For Tomorrow 4:02
6. Alice 4:26
7. Hyenas 3:35
8. I'm In Love 3:42
9. Disco Lies 3:22
10. The Stars 4:20
11. Degenerates 3:58

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portishead

Third

April 29, 2008

Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent: "Wounded and afraid, inside my head/Falling through changes". "Nylon Smile", meanwhile, is a fine example of Third's occasional folksy edge, an acoustic song reminiscent of Leonard Cohen that, around its midpoint, lifts off on a propulsive electronic rhythm, Gibbons holding one clear, hard note as synthesisers bubble beneath. At times, it's a harsh and foreboding listen: the electronic drums of "Machine Gun" might put off the listener hoping for smooth dinner party fare. But Third is a brave and forward-thinking return, and one great enough to justify its lengthy gestation. --Louis Pattison


1. Silence 4:59
2. Hunter 3:57
3. Nylon Smile 3:16
4. The Rip 4:31
5. Plastic 3:27
6. We Carry On 6:28
7. Deep Water 1:31
8. Machine Gun 4:43
9. Small 6:46
10. Magic Doors 3:32
11. Threads

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Sigur Ros

Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

June 24, 2008


Sigur Rós--the sound of snow-capped peaks. Or winged things flocking over vast plains. Or salmon making that final courageous, muscular leap upstream, homeward bound. Ever since the BBC so aptly enlisted the help of the band’s "Hoppipolla" single to theme the groundbreaking natural history series Planet Earth, the ever-ethereal Icelandic band have become somewhat typecast, finding themselves conducting awe across the backdrops of nearly every other programme in that broad genre. And with that came the danger that all which followed would automatically become an instant cliché. And though their last album Takk saw a slowing of their evolution in favour of solidifying the established sound in accessible earfuls, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (which translates as "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly") sees enough of a stylistic twist to keep things moving, without undercutting this new approachability. Where previously they sounded untouched by human hands, all alien post-rock abstractions, they now sound much more organic, sometimes literally like men playing instruments in a room. Albeit pensively, and extraordinarily. It is a perky record, attentive and exquisite, familiar but not derivative. The rhythmically adventurous "Gobbledigook" reminds of Brooklyn experimentalists Battles, unplugged, the xylophone heavy "Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur" is this album’s "Hoppipolla" and "Ara Batur" is trembling, lonely and eventually triumphant. "Festival", the album’s centrepiece, melds the old and new Sigur Rós dramatically over nine majestic minutes and must number amongst the best moments of their career. -- James Berry

1. Gobbledigook 3:04
2. Inní mér syngur vitleysingur 4:05
3. Gódan daginn 5:15
4. Vid spilum endalaust 3:33
5. Festival 9:23
6. Med sud í eyrum 4:56
7. Ára bátur 8:56
8. Íllgresi 4:13
9. Fljótavík 3:49
10. Straumnes 2:01
11. All Alright

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Tricky

Pre millennium tension


November 19, 1996

Pre-Millennium Tension picks up where the first album Maxinquaye left off, but this CD fulfills the promise of Tricky's unbounded spontaneity and fondness for sonic digression. Abandoning the accessible pop of Maxinquaye, Pre-Millennium Tension serves up a beguiling array of sound effects, electro distortion and fragmented lyrics that amount to a rich--if bizarre-musical montage. As suggested by its title, this disc zeros in on a kind of end-of-the-millennium disruption of classifiable sound. With its cross-pollination of hip-hop, cabaret balladry, background textures, and disjointed arrangements, Pre-Millennium Tension takes a peek at the future of pop music and declares it will be nothing like we expect. --Nick Heil


1. Vent
2. Christiansands
3. Tricky Kid
4. Bad Dream
5. Makes Me Wanna Die
6. Ghetto Youth
7. Sex Drive
8. Bad Things
9. Lyrics Of Fury
10. My Evil Is Strong
11. Piano

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Tricky

Angels with dirty faces


June 2, 1998


What's really tricky is following up a debut as innovative and exquisite as 1995's Maxinquaye. Third time out (fourth if you count 1996's perplexing duets project Nearly God) and the artist formerly known as Adrian Thaws is still struggling to find the right balance of ambition and ability on Angels with Dirty Faces. The album has its moments: including a stirring collaboration with Polly Harvey on the bluesy "Broken Homes" and singer Martina Topley-Bird's eerie rendering of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" on "Carriage for Two." If you liked the claustrophobic mire of last year's Pre-Millennium Tension, Angels won't disappoint. Otherwise, you may find it a downer. --Aidin Vaziri


1. Mellow
2. Singing The Blues
3. Broken Homes
4. 6 Minutes
5. Analyze Me
6. The Moment I Feared
7. Talk To Me (Angels With Dirty Faces)
8. Carriage For Two
9. Demise
10. Tear Out My Eyes
11. Money Greedy
12. Record Companies

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