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 Danceable post-hardcore types are as winning as they are confusing
You know what? On paper, tattooed London types This City’s blend of dance beats, fuzzcore guitars and Iron Maiden-esque
gallops shouldn’t really work. By rights the results should sound like
something left on the Yo Gabba Gabba! cutting room floor, but once you
get past the slightly soppy sixth form lyrics (“Please crush my ego,
not my heart”) and the incessant jerking of ‘We Move’ and ‘With Loaded Guns’,
it all clicks. More than just melodic post-hardcore-hungry zombies,
This City give us a fresh take on the genre by making music we can also
move to. Album highlight ‘Black And Blue’ looks set to double their fanbase alone – they’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Edwin McFee
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 The Black Keys team up with rap's big names for a pretty sweet collaboration
Since The Black Keys worked with Danger Mouse on their last album, ‘Attack & Release’, it’s fair to say their paths have diverged.
Mr Mouse – king of the unexpected collaboration, sometimes confused with King Midas – is no longer ‘Crazy’
famous. Instead, he’s stepped back from big-name collaborations and
busied himself crafting noir-ish, scary Americana with Sparklehorse and
David Lynch or paying tribute to Merlin with little-known songwriter
Helena Costas in the whimsical folk outfit .
Grubby guitar-crankers The Black Keys, meanwhile, now lend their
services only to gold-plated superstars such as ZZ Top. Now, with Blakroc, a project initiated by rapper Jim Jones and produced
by one-time Roc-A-Fella head honcho Damon Dash, they’ve lured a roll-call of hip-hop’s most revered to their party.
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 A patchy soundtrack for the hugely popular movie franchise
At a conservative estimate, around 30million people saw the first Twilight film (and that’s from the base of 70million who bought the novels) worldwide, and the figure will surely rise for New Moon. Think about those numbers: there isn’t a single media outlet around that can reach so many kohl-eyed young consumers. Just as the curators of Guitar Hero etc have
become the new kingmakers, Alexandra Patsavas, ‘music supervisor’, is
turning the movie soundtrack into a 21st century Peel Session of sorts.
So – phew – this collection doesn’t suck.
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 The most talked about band in the world with an EP that still defies easy categorisation
Imagine for a moment that the internet is something you can hold in
your hands. You pick it up and, ignoring mother’s pleas to leave the
mucky thing alone, you set about building a scrapbook for every band
ever blogged about, by anyone, anywhere. When you’re done, a billion
volumes of yack-stack tower and teeter above you like an ironic and
never-ending forest of corpse trees, but it’s Animal Collective
whose music has inspired the most virtual ‘column inches’; their book
of clippings is so thick Yuri Gagarin can see it, and he’s not just
flung out in space any more, he’s nowhere.
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 The TV On The Radio guitarist shines in the dark, but he's best when he's angry
With the advent of ‘Dear Science’ TV On The Radio finally conjured a pop record that critics – both the sort who hail David Guetta and those who enjoy
– could hold up as an offering to the skies. Before, their
phosphorescent soul had always been more interesting than listenable,
but ‘…Science’ saw them pitch their stall on that heavenly nexus where
texture, groove and melody join perfectly.
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