Word: drums
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...their incredible dexterity: at one point during the Bhangra dance a dancer lifts another by his feet, tucking his knees over his shoulders, whirling him and causing him to fly out like an amusement park ride. The musical acts share a similar intensity, such as the three-on-three drum and voice battle known as “tukda” that concludes the act by the tabla ensemble...
...it’s ultimately a compromise. “Always the Quiet One” allows for rapid leading drum patterns and a nice arrangement of jangly guitars and keyboard. But even when the guitars start to really rumble towards the end, the song fails to capture the Wedding Present sound. It’s too polished—understandably, of course, because by this time around the Wedding Present are a chamber-pop band without the roughness around the musical edges that puts so much charm on a record like their ’87 debut George Best...
...songs stand out in an overly drawn out and interchangeable set of drum patterns, chord progressions and whiny Vince Neil vocals. This is likely because the band lacked any ingenuity or real musical drive; their music was commercially calculated to reinforce their wild lifestyle. The only song lively enough for lap dancing is the Crüe’s most memorable hit, the drug-dealer-mock-heroic “Dr. Feelgood.” Covers of The Beatles’s “Helter Skelter,” The Sex Pistols?...
...band combines the energy of earnest hardcore vocals and rapid drum beats with mathematically precise, compressed guitar parts in the eight short songs of this one-sided LP. Their lyrics encompass both the angry screaming of those radically dissatisfied with politics (“…been told before this power is an unstoppable force to dictate a vision against its people / is what has been done before still out of reach? / vote, assassinate, impeach”) and the more tortured monologues of those alienated by mass culture and society...
...requests with wry comments and polite refusals. Perhaps a bit more overtly religious than Low’s, Bazan’s lyrics seemed to take a backseat to the instrumental quality of his voice, one that added layers to the band’s fuzzy guitars and simple drum and bass lines...