Word: songfulness
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...complained to his father, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch: "What's the point of me being here?" The young Murdoch and his wife, Sarah, returned to Sydney, and while a 2-year noncompete clause has kept him out of the headlines, the call of big business was a siren song...
...effort to uncover the roots of the instrument that is now regarded as quintessentially American. He eventually encountered the akontig, an instrument fashioned from a gourd with striking similarities to today’s banjo. For 30 consecutive days, Fleck met and played with local musicians, choosing songs in the evening and playing them for the rolling cameras the next day. “The beat almost never was where I thought it was,” Fleck told the audience as a clip of one of his jams sessions was screened. “I was often one-sixteenth...
...work than its predecessor, not only in length (it’s more than 20 minutes longer) but in feel as well. While angular guitar riffs over precise drumming and a pulsing bass still make up a majority of the album, an acoustic track and a few down-tempo songs show an unexpected but welcome maturity. Granted, they haven’t fully dispensed with their energetic-indie-pop sheen, but that probably wasn’t their aim. If you can get past Luke Lalonde’s sometimes yelpy vocals, the album will have you smiling and nodding...
...features catchy melodies over a light dance beat. With the combined efforts of no fewer than five producers, this track hides Jackson’s voice almost as effectively as “Feedback.” It’s a generic, assembly-line song defined only by its slick production, which happens to be good enough to salvage the song as an inoffensive, disposable dance single. After a few more clubby songs, ninth track “Can’t B Good” represents a return to the familiar light pop of Jackson?...
Anyone who’s ever read, talked, or thought about rock albums has often come across this criticism: “This would be so much better as an EP.” Many musicians have a habit of building LPs around a couple of good songs and devoting the rest of the space to uninspired filler tracks. They seem to prefer making long, mediocre records when they could create succinct, exciting ones. So when a band recording an EP decides to extend it to an LP, it’s usually for the worse—unless...