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...like boxes," says Daniel Bedingfield. "Human, male, heterosexual, Christian - stop there." But people don't, especially with the 23-year-old singer's music. Though his debut album Gotta Get Thru This sprawls from garage to pop to rock, it's the syrupy ballads that stick in the minds of critics. Lyrics like "If you're not the one, then why does my hand fit yours this way?" have won him a label he loathes: "cheesy pop star." Certainly the star part is true. Gotta Get Thru This has racked up 1.8 million in sales since its debut 15 months...
...that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that. Sparkling guitars and lightly-brushed cymbals litter the album’s complex compositions, and the smooth delivery from lead singer Tim Fletcher weaves in and out of the guitar lines, evoking something like dark, rainy nights on a highway—or perhaps just early 1986. “Lola Stars and Stripes” features guitar squalls and staccato bleats that reveal the Stills’ influences and their subscription to the current New York school of well-dressed hipsters. “Lola, no, we?...
...album is a wall to penetrate," says Malian singer Rokia Traoré, immediately establishing herself as a marketing exec's nightmare. The wall called Bowmboï, Traoré's third CD, is built from sounds unfamiliar to Western ears and lyrics sung only in her native Bamana, even though she's also proficient in English, French, German and Italian. "I asked myself if it wouldn't be better to do something easier," she says. "Maybe if you do something a little pop, it's easier to promote. I had a choice. But I prefer this." Thank goodness. Bowmbo...
...year. The band toys with some clever rhythm changes and guitar effects, and the lyrics tend to be more about failed relationships than casual hook-ups, but they're not exactly reinventing the medium. Why bother, when you've more or less perfected it? The album opens with lead singer Julian Casablancas proclaiming of an ex, "I want to be forgotten/ And I don't want to be reminded." Casablancas has a world-weariness that would ordinarily be suspicious in a 25-year-old. He is the son of model-magnate John Casablancas, but a study of his DNA would...
Austin-based singer-songwriters Bob Schneider and Jeff Klein perform country- and indie-flavored rock. Doors open at 7:00 PM. $15; 18+. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...