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...class called Sing 'n Dance? It hardly mattered that my eight-week-old daughter Rachel had not yet mastered holding her head upright and was nowhere close to rolling over. She was considered the perfect age for the weekly program that promised a meaningful learning experience through rhythmic games, finger play and songs...
...easier to listen to than Dig Your Own Hole was. The Chemical Brothers seem to have abandoned the absolutely straining-to-the-ear style of their 1997 break-through album. This is not to say, though, that Brother's Gonna Work It Out is soothing. It is still complex rhythmic dance music, but the cacophonous sound that dominated Dig Your Own Hole is for the most part gone...
...excellent and witty assistance of veteran Cardigans producer Tore Johannson integrating diverse genre elements and quotations to create the albums deliriously composite and cohesive sound. Good Humor is almost inconceivable: a broad, ecstatic blend of the pristine disco of ABBA, the elegant jazz pop of Steely Dan, the rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle syncopations and retro instrumentation makes the song surreal and engaging...
Rancid, like the Clash before it, often looks toward the Caribbean for rhythmic inspiration; on this album the group wisely enlisted the help of Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, who contributes guest vocals on the anthemic title track, Life Won't Wait. In the past Rancid's songs have dealt with issues of class and race in America; this album seems to have more of a global viewpoint, with lyrics that touch on Bosnia, Iran-contra and other foreign affairs. The real message, however, is in the insurgent energy of the music, the hammering drums, the fierce guitars: Resist, question...
What's the attraction? "Cuban jazz differs in that it incorporates the Cuban rhythms, but it has a complexity, a rhythmic complexity, that hasn't hit the U.S.," says Jimmy Durchslag, president of Bembe Records, an independent record label in Redway, Calif., that distributes Cuban music. "It tends to be pretty high energy and frenetic. They have monster chops; they are outrageous performers. The best of the music is incredibly technical and wonderfully creative stuff...