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...outset, Sound-Dust has the markings of sublimity. The opening track, titled “Black Ants in Sound-Dust,” is a synth-driven instrumental piece that opens with a bassline and one-note melody but builds to a crescendo of insistent hums, chirps and honks. The piece has a latent tension that uncontrollably bursts, and for Stereolab, whose works are meticulously arranged, it is a tantalizing development...
...title. When he sings along to a new wave tune on the radio, her cheerleaderish friend reacts as is he's reciting from "Mein Kampf." When he and his buddy decide to sneak into a party at her house where jocks in polo shirts cavort to bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things go awry, the audience is led to believe, they may be pummeled within an inch of their lives. "Crowd" is also crucial in "The Breakfast Club" (1985), in which teenagers from five different social strata thrown together in detention spend...
...music, not just of the cut scenes but the gameplay, are also commendable. The costumes' details were the most ornate and delightfully ridiculous I have ever seen, and the music outclasses any other made-for-game music yet. Perhaps it was done with a top-of-the-line orchestral synth, but I doubt it. This sounds like it was scored by John Williams...
...Radio #1 - the single from the new release - is a magnificently grandiose piece of synth pop with overtones of Queen and no concessions to good taste. As throughout the album, the vocals are in a globalized English that is neither British nor American. "There are some words we just can't pronounce, so we can't use them in our lyrics," Dunckel explains. "That gives us a strange approach to the English language; we play with...
...Vagabond is a good example, opening with lonesome hobo harmonica wails and blues guitar. U.S. star Beck provides folksy vocals to a lament on contemporary rootlessness before the whole thing explodes into a galaxy of dissonant synth spirals and stuttering reverb. Radian builds slowly in layers of symphonic strings and acoustic guitar into an achingly beautiful instrumental anthem. Like all Air's tunes, it's a mini-soundtrack in itself, an accompaniment for one of the many moods a day can bring...