Word: britpop
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...weirdness, Droste's instincts as a songwriter are a little too pop for the self-consciously offbeat genre/catchphrase every critic seemed to swoon over this past year. Just when Grizzly Bear’s aural molasses threatens to overwhelm, an endearingly lively instrumental break or jaunty Britpop bassline interrupts their hibernation dreams. “Fix It,” in particular, flirts with major keys at a non-somnolent pace, suggesting what these guys could do with a real studio budget...
...from today’s pop divas by eschewing the theatrics and focusing on her unique, raspy vocals. The Kingsbury Manx already seem to have learned that a whisper can speak louder than a whoop when it comes to polishing their own low-key tunes. Taking its cue from Britpop, the North Carolina outfit casts a shadowy and intimate tone over its songs, leaving listeners rocking on their country porches and floating away on meditations about cabbages, kings and everything in between. Friday, August 15 at 10:55 p.m. $8. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...ever accused Albarn of backing down from a challenge. He has always been ready to struggle to get his own way, starting with the public potshots he exchanged with Oasis in the mid-'90s, during the media-fueled battle - mods vs. rockers redux - for the Britpop crown. "It was definitely cathartic," says Albarn on Blur's rivalry with Oasis. "For us it was more of a diversion than an impetus. It has always seemed a ridiculous coupling." He has a point: where Oasis was lager louts, Blur was college boys. And these days, with the Gallagher brothers still playing...
...Moka, was released last year in their native Britain to great success. The trouble is, there’s nothing distinctive about this album that separates it from releases by other British bands on the market. There has not been another band before Toploader for whom the umbrella term Britpop is so perfectly suited...
Frusciante's solo explorations are in no way reminiscent of Summer's own new age prog-fusion instrumentals, however, and a better reference point might be Blur's Graham Coxon. The quintessential Britpop guitarist surprised a lot of people with his lovely and overlooked (if somewhat slight) The Sky Is Too High in 1998. Similarly, Frusciante's brand new album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, will confound anyone expecting a funk workout reminiscent of his day job. Like Coxon, Frusciante prefers to wind down on his own time, and in this case the results are 15 short, pretty...