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Brushfire Fairytales»rank: 2370par: Jack Johnson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Fans of Willy Porter, Ben Harper, and G. Love will all want to check out Jack Johnson's engaging folk- and blues-inflected pop. Born in 0ahu, Hawaii, Johnson, a former surfer and film-school graduate, has a knack for acoustic ballads whose calm surfaces hide a subtle but strong lyrical undertow. 'lt seems to me that 'maybe' pretty much always means 'no,'' sings Johnson on 'Flake,' which features crony Harper on slide guitar. Production by J.P. Plunier (who ... |
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Drastic Fantastic»rank: 1997par: Kt Tunstall
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Don't be put off by the cover photo on K.T. Tunstall's follow-up to the four-million selling Eye of the Telescope. Yes, it's startling to see her sporting Buck Rogers boots and wielding a glittery, oversized silver guitar. And what's up with the comic book images that make up the CD booklet? But if Tunstall is feeling a bit like her overnight success is something out of interplanetary fiction, the new graphic 'positioning' doesn't mean the Scottish ... |
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Phenomenal»rank: 8724par: Ruthie Foster
Chroniques et points de vue:From : Ruthie Foster's the newest voice in old-school soul. Her fifth album is a remarkable flashback to the genre's '60s and '70s heyday, framing her warm butter-and-cayenne-pepper singing with organ, electric piano, shimmering guitar textures, and strong backbeats. That sound, along with her strength as a song interpreter--rippling with beauty on Lucinda Williams's 'Fruits of My Labor,' stunningly emotional on Son House's cautionary Delta spiritual 'People Grinnin' in Your Face'--and her fine-tuned social politics, makes Aretha ... |
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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea»rank: 1114par: Neutral Milk Hotel
Chroniques et points de vue: essential recording:Led by Jeff Magnum, ln the Aeroplane over the Sea finds the Neutral Milk Hotel assemblage loosely performing a series of narratives backed by folksy acoustic guitar. But from that springboard, a quiver of instruments (horns, organs, accordions, saws, banjo, zanzithophone, etc.) are layered into a sometimes rootsy, sometimes lo-fi, and often psychedelic mix. Contrary to most pop experimentalists, NMH songs stretch way past the two-minute mark: 'Two Headed Boy' transforms from a Guided by ... |
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Sickness, the»rank: 4245par: Disturbed
Chroniques et points de vue: essential recording:Led by Jeff Magnum, ln the Aeroplane over the Sea finds the Neutral Milk Hotel assemblage loosely performing a series of narratives backed by folksy acoustic guitar. But from that springboard, a quiver of instruments (horns, organs, accordions, saws, banjo, zanzithophone, etc.) are layered into a sometimes rootsy, sometimes lo-fi, and often psychedelic mix. Contrary to most pop experimentalists, NMH songs stretch way past the two-minute mark: 'Two Headed Boy' transforms from a Guided by ... |
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Go - The Very Best of Moby»rank: 177par: Moby
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lt's easy to dismiss the music of this cute, vegan, bare-pated relative of Herman Melville, especially if you don't actually listen to the music and focus instead on his ultra-PC interview style or the manner in which he sold dozens of songs to commercials and film soundtracks back in Y2K. But to do so is to knee-jerkedly miss out on some very fine and innovative music by one of the most influential musicians of the last ... |
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A Weekend in the City»rank: 1872par: Bloc Party
Chroniques et points de vue: :Bloc Party may have arrived in an outbreak of like-minded British bands set upon shooting holes in the Union Jack while knocking out a sharp post-punk soundtrack, but it didn't take long for the foursome to set itself apart from the pack. Fronted by Nigerian-born singer Kele 0kereke, the group's 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, soared as much on crystal ambition as it did on ridiculously danceable pop melodies. This follow-up is darker, more cluttered, and harder to ... |
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Sometimes»rank: 120par: City & Colour
Chroniques et points de vue: :Bloc Party may have arrived in an outbreak of like-minded British bands set upon shooting holes in the Union Jack while knocking out a sharp post-punk soundtrack, but it didn't take long for the foursome to set itself apart from the pack. Fronted by Nigerian-born singer Kele 0kereke, the group's 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, soared as much on crystal ambition as it did on ridiculously danceable pop melodies. This follow-up is darker, more cluttered, and harder to ... |
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Ten Thousand Fists»rank: 954par: Disturbed
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n their third album, Disturbed don't as much break out of expected patterns as show their potential for doing so. Fans eager for more of the band's patented fist-thumping gruel will take satisfaction in the album's opening (and anthemic) title track, plus 'l'm Alive' and 'Forgiven.' The band shines brightest in the record's early moments, where 'Deify,' 'Guarded,' 'Just Stop,' and 'Stricken' demonstrate that this unit's capable of discovering a song's subtleties and crafting radio-ready choruses ... |
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Ingenue»rank: 2202par: K.D. Lang
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:The album on which she officially gave up on Nashville and began singing torchy, adult-contemporary pop, lngénue has been referred to by lang as her 'stalker' album for its emphasis on songs about desire and obsession. Despite such onerous implications, the album is a charmer, thanks to lang's sincerity and passion and the smoldering arrangements of songs such as 'Constant Craving,' 'The Mind of Love' and 'Still Thrives This Love.' The album's somewhat dark spirits ... |