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...music via contributions to Grizzly Bear’s “Veckatimest” and Antony and the Johnsons’ “Crying Light.” But despite Muhly’s classically-oriented input, “Go” is by far the poppiest, most accessible record Jónsi has ever released. It isn’t a bad change—“Go” retains most of the delicate beauty of Sigur Rós but drastically shifts the music’s emotional timbre. While Sigur...
...Hill and feels slightly more like R&B than soul, is another stand-out track, largely because its slower beat and lower range complement Stone’s rich vocals. Even “Tell Me ‘Bout It,” the album’s poppiest song and first single, is worth a listen, as it best showcases the full range of Stone’s voice. But the CD often tries too hard to offer meaningful insight into Stone’s psyche. It leaves this reviewer with two main complaints: the ballads...
Fresh off the release of Warning, their poppiest-and perhaps most mature-album yet and first since 1997's Nimrod, the Berkeley trio wasted no time in plugging the disc, opening with its first single, "Minority." From there, though, the band shied away from a greatest hits type performance, something eminently possible, in favor of a friendlier, all-request format. This slapdash approach was a stroke of genius-it drew the audience into the set and the interaction gave the group a reason to keep going...
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