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...2004’s “Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts,” M83 has filled venues from New York to San Francisco with an ever-growing fan base. Building off of the shoegazing rock tradition of My Bloody Valentine and a childhood obsession with Sonic Youth, Gonzalez says he always hoped to create music that challenged and intrigued...
...Corgan project Zwan and Guided By Voices, is indeed present on the album (and even more-so in their live performance), but each song forces Oldham to come powerfully to the fore. Sweeney is given credit for the music, and Oldham for the words, but either Sweeney has greater sonic similarities to the “Prince” than he used to, or Oldham has a firm hand in more than his credits suggest. Whatever the truth, it is a beautiful album, and Sweeney’s backing vocals and occasional stronger guitar pieces (relative to Oldham?...
...influences stretch beyond old Beck material, embracing the inglorious lower tiers of pop culture and throwing them into the mix. Some of the electronic ditties, such as that of “Earthquake Weather,” recall the early 1990s childhood aesthetic of Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. At other times Guero moves away from the standard beats and chord progressions of pop music to dabble in non-Western modes and rhythms; “Missing” is to Beck what “Within You, Without You” was for George Harrison...
...influences stretch beyond old Beck material, embracing the inglorious lower tiers of pop culture and throwing them into the mix. Some of the electronic ditties, such as that of “Earthquake Weather,” recall the early 1990s childhood aesthetic of Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. At other times Guero moves away from the standard beats and chord progressions of pop music to dabble in non-Western modes and rhythms; “Missing” is to Beck what “Within You, Without You” was for George Harrison...
...come to regard their second album, Spiderland, as a landmark for rock and roll music and Western civilization in general. Full of atmospherically angular guitar riffs that bounce off of one another in ways you never thought possible (a veritable Kama Sutra of melody), everyone from Billy Corgan to Sonic Youth had to take notice...