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...these traditional themes and sounds are omnipresent, and something about Molina & Johnson’s minimalist approach makes them feel better developed. Many similarly spare acts craft their natural sounds. They record separate tracks for fretboard squeaks, chair cricks, and the sound of a thumb dully thumping against the guitar??s body. Here, the sounds feel like natural parts of the recording. You can almost hear the whiskey being poured in between takes, and this honest and authentic quality makes the album...
...Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye”—the track most recalling The Smiths with its jangly Johnny Marr guitar??highlights Morrissey’s idiosyncratic singing until a harp budges in and confuses the mood. The depressive lyrics hit a little too close to home, as Morrissey seems somewhat conscious of his own recent mediocrity: “At one time the future / Did stretch out before me / But now / It stretched behind...
...uncross my arms to disarm the car bomb,” the song offers a strange fusion. More fascinating still is when the dark, lo-fi “Shining”—shaded by a slow, monotonous melody and the thick bramble of guitar??meets the sweet introductory swell of “On Foreigners,” a swell shaped by a gradual crescendo of soft, high-pitched voices. This contrast creates for “Vapours” a varied landscape, highs and lows often absent from individual tracks; the album captures...
...that it is possible for rock to embody a new, forward-looking American spirit. The album’s hardest rocking songs are also its most exultant. “Gonna See My Friend,” “Supersonic,” and “Johnny Guitar?? have short, punky riffs and sing-along choruses. Memorable hooks and melodies have been a trademark of Pearl Jam’s work from the time “Alive” first blasted through radios in early 1991, but these songs show that the band?...
...times, O delivers lines of barely disguised innuendo, such as “The beast that I lie beneath is coming in” in “Dull Life.” That track—one of the few songs that prominently features the otherwise downplayed guitar??comes at the midpoint of the album and is one of the album’s most immediately exciting songs. But despite the enthusiasm, the track feels slightly disappointing given its failure to advance on the work the band has done previously.In its second half, “It?...