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This is the closest the band ever comes to a feel-good track, hinting that their take on noise rock is starting to lean closer to the rock end of the spectrum...
...band abandons much of their nascent rock sensibility in the album’s second half, essentially returning to the primordial noise from which they rose...
...America, Robbie Williams is probably most famous for not being famous. In the UK he is the talk of the tabloids (his nudist/exhibitionist tendencies lend ample material, as does his notoriously bacchanalian social life), and has been tearing up the pop charts ever since his days with boy band Take That. Every album he releases stateside is ostensibly poised to catapult him to stardom. But so far, success in America has eluded him. On “Intensive Care,” Williams eschews the dancehall crowd-pleasure of his moderately popular 2000 single, “Rock...
...Goats’ opener, an endearing but unremarkable indie band with an unwieldy name (The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers), had earlier justified one intellectually vapid piece with the fallacious aphorism “like all songs, this one has a story behind it,” providing The Goats a theoretical paper tiger...
...glimmer of the band’s near-cultish appeal. Yet “Campfire” is remarkably clean-cut; devoid of devil worshipping and all the stronger because of it. BoC openly admits that some of their past records used forms of subliminal manipulation, (fitting for a band that takes their name from the National Film Board of Canada) but they assert that their latest album is focused solely on the music. This seemingly infinite ambient expanse doesn’t disappoint, as it absorbs each twanging, trembling tone seamlessly. “Campfire?...