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By: Pampelmoose Music Media MP3 Technology | pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four's Music and Media Blog

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:09:50 +0000

[...] across much heavier beats than they’ve offered in the past. You’ll find hints of Modeselektor and Aphex Twin offered up here but as always, wherever the arrangements take the songs, the vocals [...]

By: pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog » Pampelmoose Music Media MP3 Technology

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:29:46 +0000

[...] I’ve always considered The Notwist to be one of those wonderfully brainy bands – close cousins to the wonderfully brainy Radiohead. I don’t mean brainy as in the guy with horn rims and a pocket protector, I mean meaningful, thoughtful….authentic. They own their particular sound. With Radiohead as soon as you hear Thom Yorke’s high tenor you know you are on familiar and safe ground. I feel the same when I hear Markus Acher’s vocals. And their musical confidence, the twists and turns that each song’s arrangement takes, reinforces their musical maturity and integrity. Unlike their last album, Neon Golden, The Devil You and Me, takes more risks. On ‘Alphabet’ and ‘Gravity’ the band at times sounds positively post-punk; compressed electronic squalls and perhaps distorted guitars clatter across much heavier beats than they’ve offered in the past. You’ll find hints of Modeselektor and Aphex Twin offered up here but as always, wherever the arrangements take the songs, the vocals remain as airy and melodic as ever even when they are often lyrically morose. The Notwist may have spent six years getting to this but it’s been worth the wait. I’m filing this alongside Cut Copy’s ‘In Ghost Colours’ as my second must have album of 2008. [...]

By: pampelmoose » Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog » top 10 albums of the year

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:26:25 +0000

[...] Another year, another list. It’s always an interesting time of year for me as I get the chance to peruse other blogs’ top album choices and on that note Large Hearted Boy has started to compile everyone’s year end lists – check them out here. And there’s a twist in the tale today – I’m actually going to make this a top 11 as I have 2 titles vying for the number 1 spot and they are there for different reasons. So I decided to give Burial and Radiohead a joint number 1, here’s why. Burial dropped ‘Untrue’ late this year and in my mind (and others too it seems) it’s as close to an electronic masterpiece that we’ve had in some time. I came late to the dub step movement but I caught up fast following the blogger/blog Blackstep. Meanwhile as a Pitchfork review put it – Burial says – “Underground music should have its back turned, it needs to be gone, untrackable, unreadable, just a distant light.” Untrue is just that. It quivers like a hissing lightbulb, one that illuminates the tracks scattered around it– garage, dubstep, soul– and in doing so smears them into unique shapes. Untrue is a remarkable piece of work. Meanwhile, unless you’ve been living under a rock this year, you could not have missed the brouhaha that surrounded the Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ album release. The publicity white noise and the resulting coverage focused on the delivery system the band used to get the music across to its fans, which was understandable, but the music itself was a strong return to form for a band that at times seemed to take their fans for granted as they dabbled in histrionic electronic squawks, scrobbles and beats on prior recordings. ‘In Rainbows’ lives up to all of the hyperbole surrounding its release, another solid piece of work from a band that continues to mature musically and strategically. In any other year, Modeselektor’s ‘Happy Birthday’ would have taken the pole position. [...]

By: pampelmoose » Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog » emusic, scion audio-visual, modeselektor, join the navy…

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:04:42 +0000

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