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...most fans at Saturday’s show had probably signed on sometime in the last few months, and the band??s set-list seemed tailored to their desires. Whereas something from their debut album might’ve gone under-appreciated, songs like “All the Wine” from “Alligator” were greeted with the ecstatic howls usually reserved for ancient rarities or decade-old classics. When the band eased into the slower “About Today” (thus reaching all the way back to 2004?...
...History of the World together, with Rob Thomas as our guide!” this video seems to scream. You have reservations about this. What of historical integrity? Of respect for the dead and gone? “Nonsense!” chuckles the video. And so begins the band??s latest video mastercraft: a rapid-fire history lesson from the 1960s through today. Rob Thomas heralds the birth of Modern Time with delicate overhead claps, jamming in the NASA control center while Neil Armstrong bounces like a lunar Tigger in the background...
...song is a case study for what can go wrong when creative vision and baroque lyrical aspirations take precedence over melody and focus. Rubdown redeem themselves, however briefly, with “For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering),” a jittery, melodic pop tune that highlights the band??s strengths. Is Sunset Rubdown eclipsing its more venerated siblings? Offering their third LP for Wolf Parade’s incubating second, one may rush to say yes. Flaws aside, Krug is definitely onto something. But while the five or six strongest tracks here would make...
...rhythm from ever really taking over. “Chores” tumbles over itself so quickly as to leave you breathless by the end, “#1” gives in entirely to electronic elements, and album-closer “Derek” revisits the band??s early obsession with acoustic folk. At the core of all this schizophrenic songwriting, however, is Animal Collective’s strongest diptych yet—two songs, thirteen minutes all together, and the closest thing to a mission statement by the band. They’ve always been...
...ovations. And at a show by British dance outfit Hot Chip (pronounced by the Francophones around me as “Haute Sheep,” which I think is probably a better name), the Parisian crowd was anything but rude, cheering after every song, infuriatingly permissive of the band??s mere half-hour set and refusal to play an encore after five minutes of hearty applause.I was disgusted; in America, we would have burned the motherfucker down. Maybe Hot Chip escaped unscathed because of their foreign passports. In that sense, Avril Lavigne is popular for the same...