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...These days, my li’l music world is pretty much dominated by this band from Wesleyan called The Management. Over spring break I found this rare, limited-edition INXS album that has a 3-D pop-up of the band in it! The songs aren’t their finest, but some day I could probably retire young after selling it on eBay. Also, I saw Cody ChesnuTT this summer and still haven’t recovered. Same with Kraftwerk. They are kind of who I aspire to be like in my Germanic robot future life. Some other...
...breathe easy along with James Murphy and Jimmy Tamborello’s copyright lawyers. The synth-pop trappings are there, to be sure, but they’re never a pose, and “Twins” doesn’t aspire to the club. On the best songs—which is to say, all but one or two on this consistently great album—those nods to the ’80s brilliantly showcase Barnes’ superlative songwriting. The lighter-than-air loops and disco-ball riffs seem a natural extension of Barnes?...
...almost too cohesively, with songs dissolving into instrumentals that veer between intricate atmospherics and flat-poured MIDI concrete. The bonus EP included with “Twins,” though, dashes the possibility that Barnes was ever in danger of running out of ideas for fully-formed, blissful pop tunes. Barnes’ wife Nina makes the heart-racing, dewy-eyed lyrics of “Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks” all the more believable with sweet-natured lead vocals, and “The Actor’s Opprobrium” spins a narrative as surreal...
...you’ll strike back with the argument that music, as entertainment, doesn’t necessitate the exploration and growth that I speak of. Pop music can simply exist in the forms it’s already discovered; if the Beatles are a good band, which none would deny, why should a band that writes songs a great deal like the Beatles be discounted? In the prologue to his “Aetia,” the Hellenistic poet Callimachus recounted how the god Apollo came to him when he started off as a poet, and warned...
...seen in the prominent diversity on Jay-Z’s “Black Album,” where a slate of different studio gurus give each song a distinct match-up to the H.O.V.A.’s rhymes. Studio musicians in rock and pop don’t enjoy the same opportunity for fame that rap producers do, and it’s a shame: the musicians behind a huge percentage of certain radio stations go completely unnoticed for their efforts...