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MGMT - “Oracular Spectacular”
40 years after the Summer of Love (and 30 years after the Summer of Hate), MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, the duo’s much-anticipated first full-length album, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium.
Taken from: insound.com
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The Magnetic Fields - “Distortion”
Stephin Merritt has quite openly admitted that his newest offering is an homage to the Jesus and Mary Chain, and indeed this does sound a hell of a lot like Psychocandy. The strings and pianos are still there, but buried under a bed of reverb-drenched distortion and shrieking feedback.
Considering how unique and iconic an album Psychocandy was, borrowing so heavily from it could have ended up going very badly. But somehow it works quite well with his songwriting. While the Jesus and Mary Chain might have been limited by their musical ability and knowledge, Merritt and company understand the pop principles they’re working with.Taken from: nowtoronto.com
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White Williams - “Smoke”
It makes sense that a protégé of Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis would specialize in pop appropriation and cross-pollination, two things Joe “White” Williams brings in spades to Smoke. But Williams’ debut induces tender gasps and organic contractions in its meticulously tweaked songcraft: “New Violence” sounds like Sparks with Euro-pop training wheels, but the thudding bass and shrill synths have a will and pulse of their own. There are traces of Tiga’s electro-slanted élan—minus most of the dance-floor pandering—to Williams’ “Going Down,” but its lush glitches, glutinous low-end, and space-plus-samples collage aesthetic owe more to Brian Eno’s tenure with Talking Heads. Gillis’ influence rears highest in a dull version of the Strangeloves-by-way-of-Bow Wow Wow classic “I Want Candy” and the throwaway “Fleetwood Crack”—but the lopsided laptop funk of “Smoke” is nothing short of nauseously gorgeous. The world probably doesn’t need a new Beck, but Smoke proves there’s one floating around, just in case.
Taken from: avclub.com
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