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MUSIC Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs; out May 13 On their second major-label album, the kings of emotional nerdiness mine their broken hearts with just enough sonic abandon to keep things sharp. The single I Will Possess Your Heart builds over eight brooding, Wilco-ish minutes (take that, mainstream radio!), while there's actual guitar feedback on Talking Bird. A nice step in a darker direction...
...certainly doesn't help Kelly that in "Double Up," the title song from his 2007 album, he boasts of his affection for threesomes. It also doesn't help that Kelly has in recent years settled at least three lawsuits filed by women who alleged they had sex with him while they were minors. One of the women charged he forced her to have an abortion. Mayer, Kelly's spokesman, said that the singer reluctantly settled the suits on the advice of his attorney. Kelly's attorney, Edward Genson - who, coincidentally, represented Mel Reynolds, the former Chicago Congressman convicted of having...
...talent, and that he remains a highly sought-after producer by many artists. His Trapped in the Closet hip-hopera was cheered by critics and fans alike. Double Up sold just 936,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's a respectable figure, but far below the 3.9 million albums 12 Play, his best-selling album and solo debut, sold. (It's worth noting that consumers' music-buying habits have changed dramatically since 1993's 12 Play came out.) Just last week, Kelly released his latest single, "Hair Braider," and this summer he's expected to unveil a still-untitled...
...three children. Mayer, Kelly's spokesman, says the singer has been holed up in his suburban Chicago home, recording in a basement studio from 6 p.m. to about 1 a.m., afterwhich he breaks to play basketball in a nearby gym. He's recorded enough songs to release one album a year for the next three decades. But, Mayer says, Kelly didn't build the music stockpile as a money-generator "in case he goes to jail...
...Game Theory” hinted at. The album’s sonics are unrelentingly bleak: everything’s minor-key. Drummer ?uestlove’s usual crisp snare work has to wade through a sea of fuzzy synths to make itself heard. While a headphone album is nothing new for the Roots, the unenergetic electronic textures get claustrophobic quickly. The album features vocalist cameos, but it doesn’t have a melody to speak of. This means listeners are left with little but Black Thought’s musings for an entire album’s worth...