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...microhouse.” Tracks like “Tessio” and “Class” were radically insular for house music. Instead of satisfying that genre’s anthemic impulse, they called attention to their nuanced internal rhythms, suggesting the need to listen actively with one’s ears as much as the body. Intercut by melody and vocals (lyrics, even), Vocalcity’s sonic architecture stepped above dance music’s endless formal dialogue to articulate some semblance of “actual” content—even if that...
...words hit the subconscious and the phrase becomes a groove. The lifeless repetition and curious androgyny signal that this music isn’t really about “people”—it’s about you and the record, about changing the way you listen and feel and care about it. When Delay says he’d “like more variety and personality” in what most DJs play, he means it much more than that...
Long before the Bloody Lovelies released an album, they were already pulling in thousands of dollars on MP3.com. A listen of the Bloody Lovelies’ debut Some Truth and a Little Money offers up plenty of reasons why the then-unsigned band found itself on Mainstream Radio Index’s charts alongside Sheryl Crow, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl...
While the Lovelies call to mind bands like Ben Folds and OK Go, they bring a quirkiness and comfort in tickling the ivories that gives their songs a sly, operatic feel. It is just odd enough to entice, but not strange enough to frighten. Just listen to the single “You Don’t Love Me” for a taste of this eccentricity: a handful of funky chords coupled with an ironic, drawling delivery gives a standard-fare breakup song a touch of personality and psychodrama...
...topped the charts, muffling the saccharine platitudes of Michael Jackson’s “It Don’t Matter If You’re Black or White.” It’s also unusual that teens today wear Nirvana T-shirts and listen to Nirvana CDs as if the band were still alive and kicking. You don’t exactly see the same phenomenon with Stone Temple Pilots...