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...mild-mannered band generally keeps their amps at 1.1, but on a few of their more immediately accessible tracks, the pop melodies introduce themselves more assertively. This is particularly evident on their more Replacements-tinted tunes, like late ’80s tracks “Lewis” and “The River of Water,” though subsequent albums also feature shiny happy radio moments (most agreeably on Electr-O-Pura’s “Tom Courtenay”). Standing alone, these songs are pleasant enough, but the effect can be unsettling when these...
Make it stop. Make the Vocoder voices stop. This is not the ’80s. Do not use a Vocoder more than four times on an album...
...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’ always-circular tendencies as a hooksmith. Strands of melody that might have spiraled aimlessly in 1999 are effortlessly pulled into place...
...protection, Magubane explains, have changed their minds "after they have had their door kicked down in the dead of night, their houses invaded, their parents hauled out of bed and their relatives beaten. Right now the people here would rather deal with white policemen than black. In the '80s," he adds, "the anger is against blacks who work within the system...
...Next month CBS will unveil West 57th, a new magazine show that could return in midseason if it does well. Also set for August is CBS's Hometown, an hour comedy-drama about a group of college friends from the '60s who reunite for some soul searching in the '80s. The resemblance to The Big Chill is impossible to miss: characters reminisce about antiwar rallies and ponder the implications of "getting caught up in the mainstream." Despite its glib predictability, the series boasts a likable cast, headed by Jane Kaczmarek and Daniel Stern, and at least a veneer of seriousness...