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They’re a sextet from Glasgow who have made some buzz in the UK, they have two lead singers—a man and a woman—and their new album, Underachievers Please Try Harder, sports a cover photo of two women in 60s garb—one clutching a teddy bear and the other an old-fashioned movie camera. Song titles on the new disc include “Suspended from Class,” “Your Sister’s Social Agony,” “Teenager?...
Electric Six is an eclectic sextet featuring not only a bass player, two guitarists, a drummer, synthesizer and a singer, but also a cowbell and dancing. Junior Senior, a duo from Denmark, are unique for their differences: one small man, one tall man, one gay man, one straight. The Middle East...
...Most of the songs evoke, or quote, old favorites. "The Nicest Kids in Town" echoes both "The Peppermint Twist" and "Mony Mony," cutely tweaked to "Money money!" The sextet "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" is the Crystals' "He's Sure the Boy I Love" (the saxophones primmer than Nino Tempo's on the Spector singles) with a twist of "Twist and Shout." Tracy's ballad "I Can Hear the Bells" summons the ghosts of white-girl singers and the ultimate white-girl tribute song, Neil Sedaka's "Calendar Girl"; instead of the months counted off, we hear "Round...
Riding high off of a short set that afternoon at the Virgin Records Megastore on Newbury Street, the Pittsburgh-based sextet exuded energy. Pulsing tribal rhythms, delicate vocal interplay and uninhibited dancing captivated and inspired an already animated crowd...
...stringed instrument, he made as much an homage to Davis’ improvisational ability as much as he did the legendary trumpeter’s trademark sound. Using sparse figures and sliding ethereal textures juxtaposed with pulsing bass growls, he seemed to push the other members of this impromptu sextet to a higher plane...