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...most egregious injustice, though, is the disc??s treatment of 1995’s controversial masterpiece “Wowee Zowee.” Though detractors label “Wowee” undiscerning and disjointed, it seems unlikely that many would advocate for the inclusion of just two of its tracks on a greatest hits album, especially if one of these is the vaguely unsettling, strings and synth-heavy “Fight this Generation.” Inexplicably, this is chosen to end the compilation, despite its resemblance to a horrible Verlaines parody, creepily swirling around...
...Love the Future” is both its boon and its bane. It reveals Chester French as more than just mass produced musicians, but occasionally this multifarious bent also leads to painful failures. Such missteps, however, are generally eclipsed by the stronger songs that surround them and the disc??s overall composition, which makes its 13 tracks fly by in a pleasurable breeze. “Beneath the Veil,” which opens simply with a brisk bluegrass guitar rhythm and Wallach’s voice dancing on the lower limits of its register before giving...
...Talking Heads, their self-titled debut album would be it. They call their sound ‘Upper West Side Soweto.” I call it Afro-twee.What the foursome has figured out though, is that music doesn’t need to be ironic to be good. The disc??s eleven tracks are virtually free of typical indie obfuscation. There are no synths or vocoders. They’ve rightly realized that synthesis is not the same as pastiche, and that artists don’t need to act like fools or limit themselves to frivolity...
...however, is clearly rooted in our own. While it’s unfair to directly compare the two albums, the very nature of “Neon Bible” dictates that it can’t evoke the same sense of wonder that its predecessor did. The disc??s sound is still recognizably Arcade Fire-esque, though this time around, their familiar melancholy is even deeper. Perhaps it’s precisely because the band has forsaken the world they imagined on “Funeral” for the real one. “Funeral?...
...having a relationship with an imaginary friend. While it often grasps at the sublime, “The Life Pursuit” falls short of greatness. It could have been a perfectly crafted EP—of which this band has already made several—had the disc??s filler been culled. While on balance the good outweighs the bad, it remains hard to sit through the clunkers, such as “To Be Myself Completely,” whose vague lyrics and generic melody drag down the last third of the album. This is most...