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...more awards than any other commercial in the world. Gondry, often self-critical when discussing dreams, or love, or his films, turns superconfident when talking about his video work, compiled on a richly varied dvd that was released last fall. But the scope and narrative demands of a full-length motion picture meant his first big-screen venture would inevitably be tougher - it was critically panned, even by him. "I had issues with it," Gondry says of Human Nature, about a man raised as an ape. He declines to elaborate, apart from saying the Kaufman-written film, starring Patricia Arquette...
...popular in rap music, and grime (its closest U.K. equivalent) even more—there’s that apathy towards the world at large and a palpable dirt in the snares and low-end. Dizzee Rascal’s Boy In Da Corner, grime’s flagship full-length, wouldn’t have worked without its mediocre sound quality: it’s real rather than idealistic. These sounds aren’t formulated to please you; they force you to feel where they’re coming from...
...show as electrifying as Friday’s, it’s easy to forget that the Walkmen are such a young band. With only two full-length studio albums, they already have an established sound most bands don’t reach until much later in their careers. At best, this gives their music the feel of a polished craft. At worst, it can seem conservative in a non-live setting...
John Vanderslice sums up his musical range in just the first three songs of his latest full-length, and it goes something like this: melodramatically driven fuzzed-out faux-blues, electronic melodramatic pounding and piano ballads (melodramatic). On Cellar Door, Vanderslice combines and recombines these elements to find distinct directions for his sad-sack male songwriter’s backing band to explore. The result is meticulously beautiful. But over each unique instrumental backdrop comes that same mono-stylistic voice that Vanderslice can’t seem to outgrow. His intensely sincere, melodic moan pushes already overwrought lyrics...
Recent buzz band The Stills serve up a compelling but unremarkable slice of modern rock on their debut full-length, following recent albums from bands (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Interpol) paying obvious homage to the 80s post-punk...