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Artist:
Nneka
Review:
"What is life without knowing that death comes?" asks the
Nigerian-German singer-songwriter Nneka Egbuna in "Mind vs. Heart."
If you're going to wax philosophical on a pop record, you better be
able to back it up with gravitas and some great music. Luckily,
Nneka has plenty of both. She has a husky, supple voice and is
equally adept at blasting out guitar anthems ("Focus") and
sauntering through neosoul rave-ups. She's clearly listened to
Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, but the production on
Concre...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
Artist:
Hot Chip
Review:
The best song on this U.K. electro-pop group's 2008 disc
Made in the Dark was an ode to disco abandon called "Ready
for the Floor." The best one here is a marriage proposal called
"One Life Stand." Hot Chip's excellent fourth record shows how
compatible those sentiments can be. Frontman Alexis Taylor, a new
dad, hungers for commitment and ponders the big picture over
sweeping songs that set searching Yaz-like synth melodies to
elegiac house throb. The Chipsters lace their songs with
references...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
Artist:
Sade
Review:
Sade has a lot in common with AC/DC. Both have spent long and
glorious careers refining their signature sound, to the point where
it's basically one song with different titles. They wait years
between records, then deliver the same album they made last time
— which means it's unimpeachably excellent. Neither gets
caught doing anything stupid like trying a new hairstyle or making
a Balearic dubstep record. They stick to their strengths. And they
both sing about the tender emotions, from Sad...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
Artist:
Gil Scott-Heron
Review:
"Standing in the ruins of another black man's life," intones Gil
Scott-Heron over muted electro beats on "Your Soul and Mine," his
baritone ravaged but unmistakable. The lines must resonate for the
veteran singer, activist and proto-rapper, who has spent the past
decade in and out of prison on drug charges. This comeback abandons
his signature soul jazz: There's a lone acoustic guitar on the
title track, a Smog cover; noir strings and electronics à la
Thom Yorke's The Eraser elsewhere. It's...
Rating:
3 Stars
Artist:
Yeasayer
Review:
Like their Brooklyn neighbors Dirty Projectors and Animal
Collective, Yeasayer are pioneers of a scene that refuses to choose
between a sense of experimental adventure and pure pop pleasure.
It's a balance they're perfecting as they grow older: On their 2007
debut, they were freak-folkies with a knack for creating hot
Eastern-flavored grooves (check out the hallucinatory video for
"Wait for the Summer"). On their follow-up, they dive deeper into
electronics and big Eighties beats (literally: The...
Rating:
4 Stars
Artist:
The Soft Pack
Review:
These San Diego garage rockers got some heat for originally
calling themselves the Muslims, but such risky judgment does not
extend to their taste in used noise. The Soft Pack are revivalists
who keep it interesting by messing around in the margins. "More or
Less" and "Flammable" connect Feelies trance-strum to
leather-jacket Sixties stomp, "Mexico" revives Lee Hazlewood as a
surf-rock nomad, "Parasites" extends a two-minute guitar blitz into
five minutes of zoned-out sprawl (and it's all the...
Rating:
3 Stars
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