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...this genre that the clearest correspondences to the Nintendo sound can be seen: the NES' sonic toolkit–two pulse-waves, a triangle-wave and a white noise channel–is roughly analogous to the set up of the stereotypical rock band, with two guitarists, a bassist and a drummer. After less than a decade of the classic game music era, the strategies adopted by console composers would be—consciously or not—borrowed by another maverick sub-genre.By the beginning of the 1990s, early "math rock" artists (many of whom were, unsurprisingly, total nerds) rebelled...
...guitar jags are cribbed from the Strokes and Franz Ferdinand (who cribbed them from Lou Reed and Television and so on), and the band's ska rhythms and martial drums come courtesy of the Clash. But singer-guitarist Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook, drummer Matt Helders and bassist Andy Nicholson play with a swagger that obliterates any trace of ancestor worship. They aren't referencing anything as they fly through tunes like The View from the Afternoon; they're just playing as many hooks as possible, as fast and as cleanly as they...
...neatly resolved--tale of a boxer. Empty Shell, a title that once might have been descriptive of her style, has a jaunty, optimistic streak. And it doesn't hurt that the album is full of great playing from River City legends Teenie and Leroy Hodges, the guitarist and bassist on Al Green's early albums...
...heard of them first” indie rock: you heard it here first. The video for their best song, “Very Loud,” fits just about perfectly. It’s mostly some bewildered traipsing about in the woods, but thankfully directors Ted (the bassist) and Tom (a bassist in another Swedish band) Malmros avoid the high-brow, high-budget traipsing of Coldplay’s nerdy video for “The Scientist.” No sir, it’s just good, clean (cheap) fun for THIS European pop-rock getup...
...before leading a raucous crowd through a lengthy chant of “Nothing/nothing/nothing” culminating with the cathartic release of “Nothing at all.” Another crowd sing-along on “Shot in the Arm” kicks Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt into vocal overdrive as they shout: “Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm/Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm/Something in my veins/Bloodier than blood.” This blood courses through the end of “Via Chicago...