Word: bandness
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...does over the warm bass synth and bright glockenspiel of spacy “All I Need.” Guitarist Jonny Greenwood uses the propulsive “Bodysnatchers” to rock out like it’s 1995 and Radiohead’s an arena band again. And Yorke still gets in his savant touches. There are the classical fluorishes on the delicate, “White Album”-recalling “Faust Arp”; the drum machine crunch and electronic undertow of opener “15 Step”; the haunting piano...
...when the album’s direction seems clear, the Foo Fighters throw the listener off with “The Ballad of Beaconsfield Miners,” a guitar-picking instrumental written in collaboration with young guitar guru Kaki King. At first, the ballad is shocking from a band that normally prides itself on gassed-up guitars and pounding drums, but once the listener gets over the shock, the ballad adds a great original touch to the album. The Foo Fighters softly close the album with the gentle piano melody of “Home,” which...
With “Echoes,” the Foo Fighters definitively depart from their earlier style of guitar-heavy rock. But the evolution reveals a more sophisticated side of the band; thankfully, Grohl and company have learned that good rock doesn’t always have...
Despite a discography stretching back almost a decade, the band played only one song from an album other than “Boxer” or 2005’s rhythmically dour “Alligator.” While their decision not to play older favorites may seem strange, it makes sense given the pattern of The National’s rise to popularity. It took months for “Alligator” to gain full appreciation (a “grower,” everyone called it), and the fan-base has slowly expanded again since...
...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’s “Cherry Tree” EP), fan response was positively tepid compared to the roars elicited by “Fake Empire?...