Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill (Reprise)
A far better album than Young & Crazy Horse's shabby Americana from earlier this year, not so much because it's songs written by Neil (certainly nobody will be impressed by the rather feeble lyrics on display here) as that he stretches out and jams with the Horse. Really stretches out, as in tracks lasting 27:35, 16:48, 8:33, and 16:26 (along with five tracks in the three- to four-minute range). He quit drugs, but he didn't quit reaching for another state of mind; I'd even say that he may be using this music as his drug. The hypnotic trips he takes here make this his best new album in over twenty years, and one of his top five post-'70s albums. Pretty good for a guy who just celebrated his 67th birthday.
David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant (4Ad)
This could have been a style rip-off.
A far better album than Young & Crazy Horse's shabby Americana from earlier this year, not so much because it's songs written by Neil (certainly nobody will be impressed by the rather feeble lyrics on display here) as that he stretches out and jams with the Horse. Really stretches out, as in tracks lasting 27:35, 16:48, 8:33, and 16:26 (along with five tracks in the three- to four-minute range). He quit drugs, but he didn't quit reaching for another state of mind; I'd even say that he may be using this music as his drug. The hypnotic trips he takes here make this his best new album in over twenty years, and one of his top five post-'70s albums. Pretty good for a guy who just celebrated his 67th birthday.
David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant (4Ad)
This could have been a style rip-off.
- 11/19/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
"What if that was actually just the encore?" the stony dude at the urinal next to me mumbled to no one in particular. "Think about that."
And so I did. The thing was, the dude was sort of right: What had happened nearly two-hours earlier — Spiritualized's massive Radio City Music Hall performance of their watershed 1997 album Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space — was basically the encore. After all, at the beginning of the show, after the house lights dimmed, Radio City's stage manager had erroneously raised the curtain, revealing a glimpse of not only a smashed disco ball (which had apparently fallen from the rafters) but the band's set-up, too. The audience whistled their approval, and the curtain was quickly dropped, but if you wanted to be particular about it, well, then that minute constituted a performance, and everything that followed after — more than an hour of symphonic,...
And so I did. The thing was, the dude was sort of right: What had happened nearly two-hours earlier — Spiritualized's massive Radio City Music Hall performance of their watershed 1997 album Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space — was basically the encore. After all, at the beginning of the show, after the house lights dimmed, Radio City's stage manager had erroneously raised the curtain, revealing a glimpse of not only a smashed disco ball (which had apparently fallen from the rafters) but the band's set-up, too. The audience whistled their approval, and the curtain was quickly dropped, but if you wanted to be particular about it, well, then that minute constituted a performance, and everything that followed after — more than an hour of symphonic,...
- 8/2/2010
- by James Montgomery
- MTV Newsroom
Following Tod A.'s disbanding of industrial-plus-melody ensemble Cop Shoot Cop, he started Firewater in 1995 with the intention of strip-mining everything shunted into the "world music" category: klezmer, Turkish pop, whatever. The band's first album in four years was recorded over nearly three in India, Pakistan, Turkey, and Israel—mostly in a studio in the latter, and constantly leavened with laptop recordings from everywhere else. Few have ever globe-trotted with such conservative results: The Golden Hour is epic pop, angling most of its songs around the four-minute mark and always aiming for an obvious melody and soaring chorus. Unlike Britpop bands who do the same, the lyrics don't suffer from bland romance; instead, they're full of passionate but rote anti-Bush sentiment ("Your mere existence is the worst bad dream that I ever knew"). When stretching things out to an hour, Firewater—a predecessor to Gogol Bordello, Beirut, and any other.
- 5/6/2008
- by Vadim Rizov
- avclub.com
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