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There was a time when “African music” meant something other than “new indie-chic” and pale indie boys in cardigans and Sperry Topsiders violently clutching copies of “Graceland?? like Bibles on Judgment Day. This was a time when African music was a naturally occurring phenomena that filled spaces with joyful noise, pulsing, engaging rhythms and call-and-response camaraderie. This is the time that is revisited on The Very Best’s new album, “The Warm Heart of Africa...
...with its midtempo ambling New Wave guitar and echoed bass drum, sounds like an early U2 track, and the vocal and lyrical style and African-inflected bass of “Living Thing” directly channels Vampire Weekend’s watered-down “Graceland?? vibe. As already established by Mr. West, “Nothing to Worry About” is an elation, a nearly perfectly-constructed hip-hop influenced indie-pop dance song with a nonsensical yet addicting chorus. “Lay it Down” marks the other high point...
...contemporary indie music lovers.Manhattan group Vampire Weekend, however, is the most recent group to try to posit a solution. To give you an idea of their sound: if African chanteuse Angélique Kidjo produced a mash-up cover of Paul Simon’s “Graceland?? and the Talking Heads’ “(Anything But) Flowers” that was performed by The Cars and The Talking Heads, their self-titled debut album would be it. They call their sound ‘Upper West Side Soweto.” I call...
Actually, my long-suffering roommate has a point. Whether or not you’re willing to concede that Paul Simon’s “Graceland?? represents a seminal moment in American musical history doesn’t have much bearing on whether or not you’re willing to listen to “Graceland?? for six hours a day. I bought the record last week and have been playing it near-constantly since. You ought to see the interpretive dance I’ve developed to “That...
...Don’t worry,” I tell her, lifting the needle from “Graceland?? to turn it over. “I’ll reach saturation point soon, I promise...
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