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Deadlines passed; pressure mounted for marketable product; impatience festered within the band. Wilson abandoned and disowned the album, retreating to his bed for the better part of the next decade, where he became a mess of drug addiction and obesity. The Beach Boys stumbled out with Smiley Smile, a watered-down and vastly quieter echo of Smile’s original vision. The Beatles’ release of Sgt. Pepper became a landmark event, and their status atop the rock world was secure. The Beach Boys, lost without their creative force, slipped into artistic irrelevance and nostalgia tours...
...sings (bad decision.) His voice is unremarkable and unfortunately articulate enough to emphasize the mediocrity of his lyrics. The first track, entitled “The Wrong Idea,” sets the tone for most of the album: vocals and lyrics that sound sampled from a Nineties boy-band and symphonic violins that should theoretically maximize the heart-throb factor but instead merely annoy. Sample lyric: “I’m 19 and I’ve kissed two girls, that’s all / You’re 16 and you?...
...still willing to rock out. As in all his work, such as his pre-Rx group Chisel, he shows himself as a teeth-clenched, pretension-free workhorse of indie rock. Shake the Sheets is another album from an artist who has perfected his unique sound and sticks to it.The band hits their stride in the middle of the album. Relying for the most part on a simple lineup of drums, bass, guitar and Leo’s dextrous vocals, the Pharmacists produce sweet, hummable melodies that seem to defy any quick guess as to their age—they don?...
...album of all male alt-rock band the Beautiful Girls< ironically sounds a lot like the music of that other famous group of males with a seemingly incongruous band name, the Barenaked Ladies. Let’s hope that the kind of good karma that has won the Barenaked Ladies worldwide acclaim will rub off on their stellar follower in the future. This smooth guitar rhythms reminiscent of the old South mixed with contemporary–styled rap featured on the band’s new release, Learn Yourself, should win the Beautiful Girls a spot as the new favorite...
With rolling acoustic guitar rhythms and soft vocals, the music of the Beautiful Girls could pass for something in the genre of mellow rockers like the Dave Matthews Band, David Gray or the famed college band, Dispatch. But it is with the addition of cunning rap solos to gentle melodies and smooth crooning that the Beautiful Girls make their unique mark. Unlike many contemporary rap songs, those of the Beautiful Girls do not replace any sense of musicality with redundancy or a booming bass. A surprisingly high standard of music is maintained throughout this album, and the emotional lyrics sung...