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...fact that a group like Mogwai can even find an audience for its strangely mutated sonic constructions says something about John Peel and his ilk’s influence on popular music over the last three decades. Peel was committed to playing music that he liked, simple as that—damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! This revolutionary attitude put his broadcasts head and shoulders above afraid-to-fail approach that plagues most other radio. Peel is credited with assisting the launch of the careers of such divergent acts as Captain Beefheart, the Buzzcocks, the Smiths, Pulp...
...Blame Monster” is full of double-jointed, intricate sonic moments seemingly made possible only by agile programming, but many of those highlights were played almost flawlessly on stage. This may sound terribly rockist, but you just don’t expect to find bass chops as funky as Harris’ or limb-cracking beats like those meted out by drummer Danny Seim in a band whose recorded output relies so heavily on silicon...
...from Prozac-popping country house dwellers to rudely awakened pigeon-feeders, and for all of life’s pleasantry and dark side. This all runs conceptual loops around Oasis’s retreads of pieces about love, and it all occurs under a penumbra of sonic innovation—the range of styles the band touches on is incredible, incorporating the best parts of guitar-pop, two-tone ska, and the early shoegazing sound that characterized their debut, Leisure...
...Pull Up the People,” the album’s first proper track, makes mincemeat of Ali’s famed boxing boast, as butterfly-crushing bass hits gently buzz underneath the sugary stings of a thousand sonic bees. On “Bingo,” steel drums and swaying low end are joined during the chorus by gnashing, squelching keys that make you really want to “hit a six,” whatever that means...
...sounds distinctly different from his other recordings—even the quasi-solo tapes he released under the moniker Sentridoh in the late ’90s—it is very much a classic Barlow work, particularly when performed. In recorded form, the new disc’s sonic clarity is a clear contrast to the rest of his catalog’s muffled lo-fi recordings. Performed live, the sound is still very stripped-down, allowing the soft earnestness of the songs to shine through. Barlow even employed two microphones, one clean and one muffled, switching back...