Word: frontmen
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...sparse electronic backbone slowly layered with drumbeats and high, breathy vocals; it was broken briefly by sudden semi-silence, then slipped slowly into not-choruses and not-bridges. The song, and the album itself, dipped indiepop in molten, sugary experimentation. The Unicorns broke up in 2004, but co-frontmen Jaime Thomspon and Nick Thornburn came together soon after to create Islands. “Return to the Sea,” their first album under this new moniker, was released in 2006. It seemed like a natural progression for them. Though it sounded similar, Islands still managed to get inventive...
...Isn’t it good / Norwegian Wood” in Bishop Allen’s “I’ll come back to you / South China Moon.” Its use, however, is representative of a larger theme of this new album. Co-frontmen Justin A. Rice ’99 and Christian A. Rudder ’98 share mic and songwriting duties with Rudder writing the bulk of the songs this time around, and the result is a safe, predictable work that obeys genre conventions without challenging them. “Grr?...
...audience, but this doesn’t concern them. As he says of his on-stage show, “We do try to let the music speak for itself. I certainly don’t do anything special. I stand there and sing. I love all the great frontmen, but I guess that some of that stuff takes away from the music. I just want to go up and give an honest performance.”HONESTY: THE BEST POLICY?Will their honesty and ambition bring Called and Careless to where they want to be? Evan and Anthony certainly...
...Pharmacists renew your faith in rock—not to mention frontmen who can pull off singing and guitar-playing at the same time—at a local stop on their nationwide tour with guests Weird War, Helms, and DJ Klaus. 7 p.m., $12; 18+. The Paradise Club, 967 Comm. Ave., Boston...
Half of the songs on this soundtrack album are composed by the same two songwriters, Jonathan Davis and Richard Gibbs, and performed by various frontmen from metal bands such as Linkin Park, Disturbed, Orgy and Marylin Manson. However, these songs are among the worst of the album, and they all sound the same. There are a few good songs here, though, but interestingly enough, they have all already been released as singles: Tricky’s “Excess,” the Deftones’ “Change (In the House of Flies...