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...their form is the three-minute, verse-chorus-verse rock song, and once again they offer up 11 of the best you'll hear this year. The band toys with some clever rhythm changes and guitar effects, and the lyrics tend to be more about failed relationships than casual hook-ups, but they're not exactly reinventing the medium. Why bother, when you've more or less perfected it? The album opens with lead singer Julian Casablancas proclaiming of an ex, "I want to be forgotten/ And I don't want to be reminded." Casablancas has a world-weariness that...
...Parcel’s CD Unit holds up to 18 discs (or double if necessary). Hang it from a hook or fold it in a square. Just like magic. Light blue or navy blue. $12. Urban Outfitters...
...market to an audience he knows instinctively. "I'm a battle picker," he says. "I try not to get upset about all this marketing stuff because I'm saving it for the time that they tell me that I need to do a song about 'Let's hook up and have sex.' But I'm like, 'Do not--ugh!--don't pretend that the public are a bunch of idiots! Don't pretend that you know what they want and they don't know what they want.' That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life...
...with the lines “So this is the New Year / and I don’t feel any different,” the album pulls no lyrical punches. Guitarist and lead singer Benjamin Gibbard delivers his vocals so tenderly and with such fragility that, along with the hook-laden accompaniment, one cannot help but feel cheered in spite of the lyrics’ gravity...
Palmer’s songs tell gripping fairytales that are at times angry, often sad and always smart. She knows the importance of a singable hook, as in the bittersweet “Good Day.” But she isn’t afraid of straying from the typical pop song format in “Missed Me” and “Coin-Operated Boy.” The former, a song about statutory rape, relies on Palmer’s impressive vocals—which range from warm and frothy to agonizingly tortured?...