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...sinister, so sinister last night was wild / What’s a matter there, feeling kinda anxious?”) are a bit unnerving, demonstrating, as always, the darkness that can come with having a good time. This time around, they mixed up the formula, adding more synth and dub influences. They have dabbled with synth before, but every song on this album, save one, heavily incorporates a synthesizer and electronic elements. “Ulysses” and “No You Girls” manage to stay true to the old Franz Ferdinand aesthetic while adding these...
...808s and Heartbreaks,” gets the Auto-Tune treatment: he’s foresaken rap, and his questionable singing chops are lazer-bevelled into serviceable shape by software. But take a closer look at this reinvention of an album—Kanye as solely-strings-and-synths balladeer?—and he’s still human. On second single “Heartless,” he confesses that he “lost his soul / To a woman so heartless.” But she didn’t heist his heart, which beats throughout...
...promisingly different from the monotony that characterizes a majority of the rest of the album. “Welcome to Thr33 Ringz Intro” provides an enjoyable minute of T-Pain’s mediocre rapping abilities over a bouncing beat with just a hint of background synths. “Ringleader Man” continues things with a strong and slow throb that is impossible not to sway back and forth to. Similar beats, similar lyrics, and similar blandness take hold of the remaining tracks, with a few enjoyable exceptions interspersed throughout. I dare you to play...
...that hooks you. Starting with, “How you’re my hero / How you’re never here though,” this Emo-Motown ballad features the laments of a son thinking of his runaway dad. The content of the lyrics, the supporting synth, the old school, melancholic sound, and a booming chorus with James Allan shrieking, “He’s gone, he’s gone,” make this a thoroughly disarming song.Near the end of the album, the moodiness shifts to eeriness as Glasvegas reaches even further back...
...that doesn't preclude intelligent synth pop. In 2007, he teamed with Shanghai singer-songwriter Jay Wu to release Synth Love, an album of songs sung in English. A solo album of danceable techno, Post Haze, is due out this month on China's Modern Sky label. "The whole independent music scene is growing slowly in China," he says. Some of its hottest acts, incidentally, can be seen at Antidote, a club night co-founded by B6 and dedicated to new electronica. "Local kids are getting used to parties that are outside of traditional Chinese culture, and most...