The off-kilter hip-hop group takes ten tracks to tell us what we already know. The 10 Best Electronic Albums of We're all being made to buy things we don't need and value things -- shown to us on television, apparently -- that are inherently valueless. Or are we the doves they sing about, tragically turned to pigeons when surrounded by overbuilt and ugly cities. They hook you in long enough to make you comfortable and then flip the track into something totally different. TOPY and Genesis P-Orridge's knowing adoption of cult iconography and organizing principles quickly slid from satiric emulation to full embrace -- and we all went along with it.
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And when they're not condemning bpdies that, they seem to imply, are too dumb to know better than to buy stuff, the group take faulty aim at sexual politics. The 10 Best Electronic Albums of It might start as juxtaposition, but it quickly becomes muddled contradiction.
Could we be both? That fact becomes apparent pretty early on their new record, the sarcastically titled TV Loves You Back.
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After an accident that could have ended his career, folk blues artist Charlie Parr recovered and recorded an album comprised largely of older tunes. Opener "Black Friday" shifts from one disparate beat to another, speeding up and slowing down tempo what seems like a dozen times in just three minutes.
The problem is, anyone with a pulse already knows this. They hook you in long enough to make you comfortable and then flip the track into something totally different. Electro duo the Juan MacLean release a flat collection of previously released house singles on The Brighter the Light. Despite its musical strengths, TV Loves You Back never comes to much more than a lot of aimless whining. Too bad they can't switch topics and moods as quickly with their lyrics.
This expanded edition from Cherry Red Records makes the case for hearing it free of the baggage of that alt rock era. The off-kilter hip-hop group takes ten tracks to tell us what we already know.
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Or are we the doves they sing about, tragically turned to pigeons when surrounded by overbuilt and ugly cities. Underrated American treasure Jude Johnstone presents refreshingly spare, uncluttered grownup ballads on her latest, Living Room. A consumer culture is, well, against the consumer. Delicious Lips, Delicious Text: We're all being made to buy things we don't need and value things -- shown to us on television, apparently -- that are inherently valueless. Too bad, really, because musically they are anything but vague.
If that all sounds vague, it's because the complaints Restiform Bodies proffers on their new album are just that. Prolific singer-songwriter Wallis Bird tackles inequality and a world in crisis with her compelling, freewheeling new album, Woman. Anticon US Release Date: Songs like "Black Friday" and "Consumer Culture Wave" seem to both condemn the culture around us, and condemn us as individuals for participating.
Throughout the record, the group deftly meshes harsh and unadorned hip-hop beats with warmer elements of electronica. Hear it in full now.
On It Ain't the Same, Minneapolis singer-songwriter Jack Klatt offers hope that love and joy can still overcome the darkness of a world turned upside down. The 10 Best Electronic Albums of Revisiting our best electronic resiform fromwe find these records have stood the test of time. Popmatters is wholly independently owned and operated.
It's a compelling sleight of hand. TV Loves You Back. It marks a particular moment in the musician's bldies and his belief that songs never die.
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Edgar Allan Poe's 10 Best Stories. All so some nameless, faceless, power-wielding being can make some money. And TV Loves You Back does little, if anything, to shed new light on the subject, making Restiform Bodies come off not as clever and thoughtful -- which is clearly their aim -- but instead as pretentious.
The album consistently shoots for aloof sarcasm and irony, attempting to send up TV culture as something silly that shouldn't have the power it does. Restiform Bodies also conveniently exclude themselves from a culture that, judging from the level of attention they seem to pay it and the frustration they feel, they are very much a part of.
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