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...record label, and you can hear the absence of both. From Alec Ounsworth's thin, David Byrne-like vocals to the miles of ether between the pop hooks, the album is not exactly market friendly, but abstraction has its rewards. They include the floating ecstasy of the break-up song Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) ("Now where's the woolen sweater/ You mentioned in the letter?/ Imply/ The other guy") and the partial fingerprints of Joy Division and R.E.M. on Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood, which, title notwithstanding, offers nuanced anger about...
...music is as bad as any other form of stealing." But the big breakthrough came from Apple, which finally convinced millions of consumers to pay for downloadable music. Apple's iTunes online music store - launched in 2003 - was easy to navigate and used a simple pricing structure: 99? per song; around $10 per album. ITunes downloads have now hit 850 million. "I will be eternally grateful for what Apple and the iPod have done," Kennedy admits. There are now 350 legal music sites online, up from 50 two years ago. Levy predicts that 25% of industry revenues will come from...
...publishing business also reaps rewards from the growing use of music in other media: advertising, films and TV soundtracks, electronic games and toys. EMI even has a contract with a pottery company that prints song lyrics onto coffee mugs. Nicoli is particularly keen on the future of wireless sales of digital music. Noting that MP3-player penetration is only around 15%, but "that nearly everyone has a mobile phone," he's excited by the prospect that half of all mobiles will be music-enabled within two years, and that the technology for wireless downloads of music is nearly at hand...
...technically superb, 60s-influenced pop-rock album--and doesn't pretend to be more. There is no overarching theme in the often dark lyrics that songwriter Paul Hixon Pittman says he "usually think[s] about a year later," long after he's written them. Pittman's favorite song on the disc, 5/4, was named after its time signature since the band couldn't come up with another name for it. Even "Young and Sexy"--a tag the band has kept since 1998, through various line-up changes--has little significance. "We were just trying to come up with a band...
...technical mastery get in the way of the album's prettiness. The adept rhythm section keeps things mostly understated. The instrumentation gives the album a full sound, but not one that's over the top. And, perhaps most important of all, Young and Sexy don't drag out a song longer than two minutes if it's not necessary. The result is an album that sounds unified and pleasant, but that you could still offer to your piano teacher as proof that not all pop musicians are talentless hacks...