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...Jester (nice guy Koala). The Kid is touring for his recently released sophomore album on Ninja Tune, so expect more inimitable record play and stage humor. Also featuring vocalist Lederhosen Lucil and projected animations by Monkmus, who was responsible for Koala’s “Basin Street Blues?? video. The Middle East...
Part of the secret is the surreptitious highlights in the music. “The Battle of the Broken Hearts ” subtly blends chimes into the folksy piano, while the band brings a juicy Hammond organ along for the ride on “Tinkers Blues??. But the fact is that this is good songwriting: these could be played as rock songs at double the tempo and still sound good. It’s just that Mojave 3 like the swoony sound. If you feel the need to swoon, or simply sigh enigmatically, check this...
After the ruckus of the training, the race itself brought no less drama. Though the first turn in the course was in the Dark Blues?? favor, Oxford could not advance on the Light Blues, and at the mile marker, Cambridge had a third of a length’s lead and remained a second ahead of the Dark Blues at the Hammersmith Bridge...
...Magnolia Electric Co., the latest from Songs: Ohia, is a paradigm of this musical tradition. The album will leave listeners confounded as to how songs that veer so close to self-parody (such as “Peoria Lunch Box Blues??) can be so utterly enjoyable. With its Southern-inflected vocals from Jason Molina, haunting background harmonies (which recall Patti Smith) from Jennie Benford and slow, steady arrangements of guitar and piano, this is no typical rock album. But it might have been your father’s in the mid-70?...
...Opener “Farewell Transmission” is enough to sell you on the album right away. It’s an apocalyptic tour-de-force: seven and a half minutes of crunching guitar and vivid lyrics which culminate in the band chanting “long, dark blues?? over a snarling guitar solo. The memorable refrain shows up again in “John Henry Split My Heart,” another epic rocker that ties up the album’s thematic cycle of hardship and loss in a turbulent, changing world...