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...that deadliest of commercial adjectives: challenging. Her high-art pedigree--she is the daughter of poet Miller Williams, who wrote Inaugural verse for Bill Clinton in 1997--scared off arena crowds; her blending of country, folk, rock and blues made her Kryptonite to rigidly formatted radio; her weakness for bass players and love of Southern Gothic led some to dismiss her as eccentric. An 11,000-word profile in the New Yorker that concluded Williams wrote best when she was thoroughly miserable didn't help matters...
...songs like the Two-Tone influenced “Gene By Gene” and the bass-driven “Moroccan People’s Revolutionary Bowls Club” are jarringly new. On those tracks, Albarn’s usual penchant for clever lyrics and tight pop structures are sacrificed for sing-along and slick production...
...Thermals formed around a rudimentary demo—which turned into the band’s debut, More Parts Per Million—that Harris recorded on a four-track in his house. At the time, he and his longtime friends Barnett, Kathy Foster (bass) and Jordan Hudson (drums) didn’t realize it would land them a three-album contract with...
...Karin, a career in rock music is a new possibility—she was a bona-fide cellist until she first picked up the bass guitar last December. She says she never even listened to rock music before joining Bishop Allen, and laughs in response to Rolling Stone’s ascription of the term “indie-elite” to her music...
...band comes off as irreverent, with Kyle getting credit for bass, singing and “Sock,” and Roadie (the band’s major force in songwriting) for playing the guitar and “Shot Glass.” Unfortunately, this isn’t manifested as whimsical lyrics or playful guitar lines in the music, but rather as amateurish simplicity...