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...used to describe a career of under three years) raspy and understated style. The distorted guitar in “Evening on the Ground” and the slick bass line of “Freedom Hangs Like Heaven” lend these songs a simply bad-ass vibe. Packing a punch and a twang, these songs may cause dancing, foot tapping and other reactions not normally associated with the band’s previous efforts...
It’s not blindingly original music, to be sure. Some of the songs played could pass for innovative pastiches of several recent 80s-inflected rockers. But Longwave never sounded stale or tired, with melodic strength and dead-on chops that belied their eager, easygoing vibe...
...childhood: a local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe with Frank Conroy's excellent Stop-Time...
...hails from “Damnhattan” (we assume he’s talking about the, uh, Upper “Beast” Side) and is rumored to be the son of a prominent liberal columnist, has an Eminem vibe going on until he starts singing over the chorus, when things turn decidedly Vanilla Ice. Not like “Toxic” has ever featured a particularly pleasant vocal track, but sometimes you gotta know when to draw the whiteboy line...
...match. Reminds me of “Billie Jean” in its imagery—with dark streets, gleaming puddles, and sinister looking street lights shining down on Usher’s fresh, bleeding face. The whole thing’s got a marvelous kind of grimy vibe to it, and the beat hops handily! I’d love to see a collaboration between Usher and Justin Timberlake at this point, because they’ve developed very similar characters that have little left to do but brawl...