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...their songwriting habits, Tom Gray, singer and multi-instrumentalist with the band said, “Imagine any possible permutation or combination with four or five songwriters and three singers, and we’ve done that.” When Bring It On came out, it was soon branded “American sounding.” “Well, that’s rock and roll isn’t it? I suppose it’s an American invention,” said Gray. “Everyone expected us to sound like an indie band...
Ironically , the show’s best moments received relatively lukewarm applause. In multi-instrumentalist Richard Bona and trumpter/vocalist Cuong Vu, the Group has found two brilliant artists. Hailing from Cameroon, Bona brings a lovely pure, high voice, and a lyrical, warm electric bass while Vu’s voice and horn are in equal measure poised and pristine. They blended beautifully on the chorale opening of “Another Life” and both produced restrained evocative solos that fleshed out Metheny’s soundscapes. The most tumultuous applause, however, was reserved for the bandleader himself...
...charm; he is the smoother-over, the explainer, as pleasingly facile at life as he is at composing melodies. George, once the least visible of the group, now focuses his energies on Indian music and philosophy; an occasional contributor to the Beatle songbook, he is the most accomplished instrumentalist. Ringo, a thoroughly unpretentious fellow, is also the most innately comic temperament; he is the catalyst, and also the deflator, of the crew. Most mysterious of all--and possibly most important--is John, the creative mainspring, who has lately grown strangely brooding and withdrawn; he is more thoughtful and tough-minded...
...idea of Wilco. To be sure, the banjo isn’t featured on all of Wilco’s tracks, but it remains their most distinctive feature, and the cornerstone of their unique no-depression, “alt-country” timbre. And when multi-instrumentalist/technician Jay Bennet (i.e. the banjo guy) left Wilco earlier this year, so too did the all-defining Wilco gimmick. Bennet left behind a deflated effigy of a band, an artifact which in its present incarnation is almost unrecognizable (save Jeff Tweedy’s unmistakably textured vocals). In a sense...
Suburbs does not have the same level of infectious energy as past BFF records, and while Folds is a solid instrumentalist, it seems impossible to replace the skill of his former bandmates. And yet somehow these things almost don’t matter. Folds is now wiser and more mature as a songwriter, and can now acheive with lyrical subtlety what once required the emphasis of roaring vocals and crashing piano. The strongest songs on Suburbs are more autobiographical, able to convey genuine emotion without falling into the trap of sentimentalism...