Word: midtempo
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...Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, which sold 2 million copies after its release last year, was wonderfully assured; their new CD, No Need to Argue, shows even more range and promise. The new record begins with a personal statement from O'Riordan, a genial midtempo song called Ode to My Family. "We were raised/ to see life as fun and take it if we can," she sings. The album overflows with honeyed pop melodies, in particular the introspective Twenty-One and the aching Daffodil Lament. On the latter, O'Riordan shows off her voice, yelping...
...rock today: towards the end of many songs the grunge guitar kicks in, and consequently the song endings tend to sound similar. The best tunes, such as "Be Sweet" and "Debonair," are those where drums, bass, and guitars are all active. "My Curse" is a piano and acoustic guitar midtempo track with vocalist Marcy Mays featured. In rhythm and feel it is very similar to Eric Clapton's unplugged version of "Layla," with Mays' vocal reminiscent of Grace Slick...
Lead vocalist Mike Patton growls, screeches and roars his way through songs making not-so-subtle commentary on greed, complacency and selfishness. It's easy to laugh at the skewering of a thirtysomething character in the midtempo funk-rocker Midlife Crisis who derives her sense of security from her "pockets jingling" and is wrapped in "morbid self-attention...