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...Bubble Pop Electric,” owes much to the contribution of Andre 3000, who appears here in his Johnny Vulture alter-ego. It’s got a fun, driving beat and a great Jamiroquai-esque chorus, but yet again the lyrics slaughter it. The song??s meaningless title is spoken over and over in the chorus, which generated confused looks and questions of “what the hell?” from anyone who was in the room with me while I was listening to it. And then there’s that one line...
...Yoshimi’s continued vocal flourishes, still wordless, merely a beautiful crooning melody—this band has clearly come a long way since the guttural growling of their 1986 Anal by Anal 7”. The song begins to build towards its first peak precisely at the song??s halfway point, where all the instruments and background sounds begin to drop away, culminating in a brief standstill, which immediately starts back up again with a calmer and more straightforwardly-jazzy piano and vocal improvisation. The insane wall of percussion resumes again, and the track winds down...
...groove that is created is shattered twice more in the song, as it switches gears to an extremely rapid drum beat accompanied by rock guitar and then again at 7:10 when the drums and guitar shift genre evocations to an almost upbeat ska sound. By the song??s end, the listener has no idea how he got from point A to point B, but in all of its abruptness, the transition somehow seems almost natural...
...true. And what makes this new disc even more powerful is the way in which “he swallowed my pee” can be followed two songs later by “We Oh We,” which sounds like the “quiet song?? at a contemporary church service. If F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim about the true test of intelligence can be extended to albums as well, then Mississauga is a pretty damn smart album; but, like all smarts, it’s only bound to appreciated by a select...
Between Dylan’s seemingly ubiquitous presence and what Prof. Thomas calls the “never ending tour,” his appearance in a Victoria Secret commercial and one of his song??s close lyrical resemblance to passages from a Japanese Yakuza novel, the Troubadour has sparked some heated controversy...