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...EP, the triumphant junior effort of the experimental math post-rock group Battles, is as intelligent and compelling as it is weird. The quartet, featuring John Stanier of Helmet and Ian Williams of Don Caballero, is not your ordinary band, with perplexing track names, a record called EP C that came out before B EP and whose website biography is a series of scrawled diagrams, pictures and drawings. Not content to be merely strange, they also produce incredible musical compositions—the instrumental songs on their latest album are strikingly diverse, both internally and against each other, with track...
...filled warehouses filled with a bizarre mix of hipsters and ne’er-do-wells. The Happy Mondays, who got their name from a term for the tranquil E come-down the day after a rave, had popularized the scene the year before with their top-40 hit EP Madchester Rave On, but their next full-length Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, my pick for all-time greatest drug album, blew it open as Britain seemed to slowly turn into one non-stop party. Though soon the party ended—frontman Shaun Rider?...
...musical masturbation” as it alternates between depressing piano solos and composed moments of Folds panting. Even the most devout fans of Folds should pass up this disc and wait for the dork-chic piano man to offer up something more substantive. Those who purchase the EP will forget its melodies and instead find themselves singing along with Whatever’s “Song for the Dumped”: “Give me my money back, you bitch...
...under-the-radar 2003 EP, The Soul Sessions, Joss Stone won critical praise and a blues-club-ful of Norah Jones comparisons with her husky, knowing renditions of vintage soul covers. Stone showed she has taste, but the important question--does she have soul?--went unanswered. Her covers were emotive, but the depth of her feeling, at 16, was a tad suspicious. Where Jones, an ancient 25, shrewdly concedes the limitations of her experience by never oversinging her tidy little songs, Stone, a native of Devon, England, who signed a record deal after performing on a BBC talent show, heaved...