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...Young) the element of noise has largely been moved to the background, though it shines through on the final song, "Small Children in the Background," where a plaintive guitar line trudges through squalls of feedback. One of Mogwai's finest songs, it nicely balances an otherwise ethereal EP...
...three principal artists of Splashdown clearly have varied musical tastes, experimenting with everything from acid jazz to ambient trip-hop and hard-core guitar riffs. On their Redshift EP, sometimes these diverse elements come together in an interesting mesh, but often the combinations are jarringly incoherent. "Waterbead" incorporates ethereal vocals, jungle beats and one heavy metal interlude in a disconcerting jumble that misses the mark. The jungle beats sound particularly strange, as they sit on top of the melody, instead of forming the undercurrent of the song. In contrast, "The Archer" is a smoother ambient track, reminiscent of Luscious Jackson...
...mean really anticipated. The sizeable graf piece in Soho dedicated to Black Star can corroborate this hierarchy of expectancy: first Christ, then Rakim, then Black Star. These cats managed to be interviewed by everybody, even when we thought the album was supposed to be an EP. Then they put forth "Definition," a first single that achieved the seemingly impossible--i.e. reusing BDP's "1-2-3" hook and still coming off--and then slowly gave the world little tastes of glories to come, such as tracks featuring Common and underground hero Wordsworth's best appearance on wax to date. Everyone...
...built a career around her girlish, often straining voice and simple, pop driven song structures. The recent release of Please Do Not Disturb, however, marked a sharp departure for the Boston-based artist. With its hollow, often menacing production, heavily distorted bass guitar and aggressive, direct lyrics, the EP opened up for her a whole new arena of musical possibilities. Hatfield's show reflected all of the strengths and weaknesses of the new approach...
...little disappointing that music-hungry fans were not able to hear more of it. Of the 19 songs (including two encores) played during the course of the night, only three were unreleased. The rest of the set consisted of a mix of the past two albums, the new EP and a couple of B-side releases. It was unclear whether Hatfield was uncomfortable with the new material and unready to share it, or merely looking to give the crowd what it was looking for. Certainly the inclusion of classics such as "My Sister" and "I Got No Idols" made sense...