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...even here Hard-Fi fails to completely capture the timbre of their source material; at best, they’re Maroon 3 or 4. It’s not all bad. There are some interesting influences hiding beneath the surface of Hard-Fi’s sound. Their broad sonic palette boasts a wide variety of electronic sounds, and some of the album’s most interesting moments occur when Hard-Fi tries to sound more Daft Punk than Maxïmo Park. But even that doesn’t always work, giving the music the unwelcome sweaty sensation...
...power-pop outfit The New Pornographers will be surprised by this album’s grittier, more soulful aesthetic. Country-fried “Confessor” tracks like “Star Witness” and “Hold On, Hold On” inhabit a different sonic universe than indie-tastic Pornographers rave-ups like “Letter From an Occupant” and “The Laws Have Changed.” This is not to say that fans of Case’s Pornographers work will not enjoy her new record?...
...scores to lend them exotic “flavor,” Darweesh’s use of Western musical tropes is a true synthesis of styles. The violin and cello parts were not merely ornamental to their Arabic counterparts, but rather integral components of Darweesh’s sonic palette—Darweesh did not bridge the gap between Western and Arabic music, so much as he recombined elements from both traditions into a bold new aesthetic...
...Even Beck released an EP of 8-bit style remixes of his 2005 "Guero" album, borrowing the Nintendocolor aesthetic of underground video artists Paper Rad for his "GHETTOCHIP MALFUNCTION (Hell Yes)" music video.So what is this "Nintendo music," really? Who were these mysterious video game composers, who determined the sonic environment of millionsof American teenagers from the other side of the world?At the dawn of the home console era, technicians and engineers were finally able to bring video game music past the primitive bloops and beeps to which arcade-goers were accustomed. In 1983, the Japanese debut of Nintendo...
...arena undoubtedly became a factor, with the decibels growing as each of the nine three pointers Yale used to bury the Crimson passed through the net. The Bulldogs’ band, packed in behind the basket next to Harvard’s bench, was a key contributor to that sonic influence as well. “I think on one possession [Harvard] actually went out in the hallway because they couldn’t hear anything,” Jones said. “I went over and I thanked the band for coming, and hope they come every game...