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...When I heard the New York band??s eponymous 2004 LP in the summer of 2006, it sounded positively Californian, except edgier than the Beach Boys and possibly more harmonic than The Mamas and the Papas. I was ashamed to be two years late in my discovery, yet at the same time, excited—I figured that their second album was imminent...
...When Congleton talked about the band??s upcoming prospects, he said, “If we can do some shows and festivals this summer that’d be great, but without a release that’s hard to do. It might be nothing...
...have one at the end of their adopted monikers—plus they have a song title featuring no fewer than three of them (“You! Me! Dancing!”). Bearing this in mind, it’s not surprising that every moment of the Welsh band??s debut album, “Hold on Now, Youngster,” feels like it’s punctuated with extra emphasis. The band has been building to this album through a series of impressive EPs and singles. Fans of these early releases may initially be disappointed...
...Release.”As their first album recorded in a professional studio, with an outside producer, or with additional musicians, “Attack & Release” has all the trappings of a sonic leap forward. While it never satisfies as fully nor succeeds as thrillingly as the band??s earlier work did, the album explores a fuller, more dimensional sound that only promises greater things from the Keys in the future. It certainly shows that the band could have used the help of a producer like Danger Mouse during their holding pattern, 2006?...
...difficult to understand why the Raconteurs have returned in 2008. Their follow-up, “Consolers of the Lonely,” masquerades as a more commercially and critically viable incarnation of their debut. Instead, this second outing feels like a regression from the first, and the band??s overall competency seems to be the only weapon against an inevitable fade into pop-rock homogeny.From the opening chords of the title track, it becomes apparent that something is amiss on “Consolers of the Lonely.” Nearly every song on the album seems...