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beautifulduckweedMore babbling about music I've been listening to!
Wolf Parade: I don't know what it is about Wolf Parade, but I haven't been able to stop listening to it since I got Apologies to the Queen Mary. The bleeping, bouncy, off-kilter beats of "Grounds for Divorce" have not left my head for days, and you know what? I'm really, really happy about it. It's kind of sick, how much I like that song. I haven't fallen in love with a band this hard, this fast since The Decemberists, and John Vanderslice before that. I'm not really sure why I love them so much, either; the two lead singers' voices are affected and (to be frank) kind of annoying, and their music has a tendency to drone after a while, but the friction and dissonance in their songs just hook me harder instead of driving me away. It doesn't hurt that I find their lyrics fascinating. They're not as literate as, say, The Decemberists or Sufjan Stevens, but they have a knack for spare, oblique poetry that I find very appealing. The only song on Apologies to the Queen Mary that I feel halfway inclined to skip is the sixth track, which is slow and draggy and far too depressing for me to handle in my current mood. A-
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shmivejournal was responsible for introducing them to me via his semi-regular Popgems feature a few weeks ago, and I finally got my hands on Carnavas few days ago. I have to say, I'm impressed. They kinda sound like what would happen if the lead singer for The Muffs decided to ressurect Veruca Salt and helped them to, well, not suck. There are some bands that sound like they'd stepped right out of some alterna-schlock festival in 1995 and I think "Wow, I would've liked these guys a whole lot if I'd listened to them 10 years earlier, but now I think they sound weirdly dated" (Snow Patrol belongs in this category, and to a certain extent, OK Go1), while others make me think "Hey, I STILL like that sound, like a whole hell of a lot." Silversun Pickups belong in the latter category. B+
1 Yes, I know Snow Patrol, OK Go and Silversun Pickups sound nothing like each other, really. But they all sound like they should've been releasing albums 10 years ago, and I'm hard-pressed to answer why.
Wolf Parade: I don't know what it is about Wolf Parade, but I haven't been able to stop listening to it since I got Apologies to the Queen Mary. The bleeping, bouncy, off-kilter beats of "Grounds for Divorce" have not left my head for days, and you know what? I'm really, really happy about it. It's kind of sick, how much I like that song. I haven't fallen in love with a band this hard, this fast since The Decemberists, and John Vanderslice before that. I'm not really sure why I love them so much, either; the two lead singers' voices are affected and (to be frank) kind of annoying, and their music has a tendency to drone after a while, but the friction and dissonance in their songs just hook me harder instead of driving me away. It doesn't hurt that I find their lyrics fascinating. They're not as literate as, say, The Decemberists or Sufjan Stevens, but they have a knack for spare, oblique poetry that I find very appealing. The only song on Apologies to the Queen Mary that I feel halfway inclined to skip is the sixth track, which is slow and draggy and far too depressing for me to handle in my current mood. A-
Silversun Pickups:
shmivejournal was responsible for introducing them to me via his semi-regular Popgems feature a few weeks ago, and I finally got my hands on Carnavas few days ago. I have to say, I'm impressed. They kinda sound like what would happen if the lead singer for The Muffs decided to ressurect Veruca Salt and helped them to, well, not suck. There are some bands that sound like they'd stepped right out of some alterna-schlock festival in 1995 and I think "Wow, I would've liked these guys a whole lot if I'd listened to them 10 years earlier, but now I think they sound weirdly dated" (Snow Patrol belongs in this category, and to a certain extent, OK Go1), while others make me think "Hey, I STILL like that sound, like a whole hell of a lot." Silversun Pickups belong in the latter category. B+1 Yes, I know Snow Patrol, OK Go and Silversun Pickups sound nothing like each other, really. But they all sound like they should've been releasing albums 10 years ago, and I'm hard-pressed to answer why.
