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...effort is wholly Knox's own; he played all of the instruments, recorded the tracks himself at home on a Tascam 8-track and even designed the cover art--which, incidentally, is as basic, childish and irksome as the album itself...
With his new album YES!!, perky indie-pop superstar-in-his-own-mind Chris Knox comes up with creative, energetic ways to explore mediocrity as an art form unto itself. Rather than seek out new musical territory, Knox revels in cliched, annoying formulas slapped together to form a pastiche of generic major chord mayhem. YES!! does succeed in pushing limits--for instance, those of compact disc space capacity. Knox man-ages to pack more than 70 minutes of his special brand of grating, '80s-obsessed, painfully simplistic pop stylings onto a single disc...
Unfortunately, a little less innovation on the technical side and more musical craft would go a long way. In fact, any number of improvements would--less inane lyrics, for example. Knox not only commits the traditional (and acceptable) pop crime of writing terrible, trite lyrics, he structures his songs (all 14 of them) such as to place special emphasis on his meager voice and lyrics. The spare arrangements simply highlight the artist's severe limitations as a vocalist and lyricist...
...since the lyrics are quite unintelligible, is not as embarrassing to listen to as typical YES!! fare. There's nothing wrong with pithy lyrics and limited vocal abilities--check out Cibo Mat-to--but such an approach needs to be tempered by some skilled irony in the delivery. Knox takes himself so seriously that he is dragged into a pit of self-involvement from which there is no escape. Knox is clearly in trouble delivering a line like, "There's love and there's lust/and there's a fine line between them," as if it were a revelation...
SEATTLE: After his landslide election to the National Rifle Association board, Charlton Heston is launching a crusade to unseat Neal Knox, the NRA's controversial first vice president, in elections Tuesday. Heston hopes to counter Knox, a longtime NRA member who is working to wrest control of the group from 56-year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre...