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...Leo and the Pharmacists
...Leo’s fifth album with the Pharmacists continues in the strengths of his first four: sharp hooks, relentless energy and excellent songwriting. Though there’s little innovation here, Leo manages once again to fill his sound with such sweet guitar tone that the listener is hooked from the outset. Few artists today aim for this kind of warm power-pop, and Leo shows himself as a songwriter still willing to rock out. As in all his work, such as his pre-Rx group Chisel, he shows himself as a teeth-clenched, pretension-free workhorse of indie...
When Leo’s vocals are joined by the band’s in the final moments of the “Walking to Do,” we get the sense of a coherent force in music today. No other artists are writing songs like Ted Leo, and with Shake the Sheets he proves further it’s an important niche he fills...
...little hysterical. Actually, the whole affair reminded me of nothing so much as that spring afternoon on the football field five years ago. The problem now, as then, was not motive: there were enough good intentions on the Weeks Footbridge and on my high school’s Leo Shields Football Field to cover the road from here to Hell in asphalt several times over. The problem was that we were window-dressing. The problem was the vague sense of self-satisfaction that hovered over us on the football field and on the bridge. There is a sort of grief...
There have also been productive interferences: The French New Wave loved American film noir; Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story takes off from Leo McCarey; Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo morphed into Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More...