Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
I've never been very customer Canadians Broken Social Scene. I have long tried yet. It finally after a concert slightly annoying that I capitulated, this group does not affect me. Just the opposite of side project Cambpell Torquil and Amy Milan Stars. "Set Yourself on Fire" was one of my bedside discs in 2005 and concert in the rotunda of the Botanique in Brussels remains one of my fondest memories of scene (and I do not go too far in saying that this was the also for them if they believe a Torquil tearful repeating between each piece it is the most beautiful place in which they have never played their best gig). So what about this new album that contains both the best and worst of the band's career? If one is armed with his skip button is a great achievement, a worthy successor to "Set Yourself on Fire." After a short intro rhythm of a heartbeat "The night starts here" opens the show so ambiguous. Differences between layers of synth and low saturated feedback and voices of Milan and Campbell who responded. After the first surprise we must recognize that it works pretty well. "Take Me to the Riot", announced first single, is calibrated FM. Their two voices in unison in the verses and a catchy chorus, fast, where Campbell can be let go. Never conventional, however.
The album then flows (very) nicely to "Ghost of Genova Heights" where Campbell unleashes his inner funk. The effort is commendable but is not that Prince wants. Skip. Like all albums Stars to date (it is their fourth), the second part (B side?) Is substantially lower than the first but still of good quality if you forget "Barricade" that seems straight out of an American musical about the French Revolution. The album ends on a title against monumental Perhaps my favorite Stars to date, Campbell succeeds where all he has missed on "Barricade." Of course we must place its shell in the closet. Stars of all manner has never been a band for macho. I can not help but think of "I Fought In A War" Belle And Sebastian listened. It's an overdose of sugar (never both Campbell Croon), full of good feelings ("The Birds sing Listen! Listen The bells ring! The War Is Over!"), Pompous at will (thank you and violins soaring). It could very well be the grand finale of their musical. Yet it's perfect.
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
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Okkervil River - The Stage Names
I already talked at length about "Black Sheep Boy" in these virtual pages . Stars like the previous album from Okkervil River has long worn my player. Will Sheff and his band are back two years later and one thing is sure, they want their due. Black Sheep Boy met a great success of esteem but did not (and unjust), revealed to a wider audience. They bad. Will released his electric guitar and bass drum is dusted. The tone is set immediately on "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe". This album will definitely rock, its largest. No more cry out with an acoustic guitar in flower gardens (cf. Take Away ). The rhythm accelerates, the pianos were saccadent and a solo electric guitar couillu fact appeared. Sheff's voice soft and serious at times quieter turns to treble when he gets excited and he reveals that aggression was only suspecting him until now. "A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene", the third track on the album, the band surprised many by acrimony seems to be trying to soften the singer about her joining him in a few female hearts and a horn section.
As if he had understood the message, Sheff is a 180 °. "Savannah Smiles", a rocking rhythm of a clock and led to the xylophone. Too bad for those who had succumbed to the darker side, the rest of the album is decidedly calmer. "Plus Ones" could appear on "Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River is the pure juice. Simple and beautiful. Somewhere at the crossroads of Americana and folk. Will Sheff to console a friend like only a man who also suffered a lot can do it, "No one wants to hear about your 97th tear ...". In the past it might have only performed this song on guitar but today he took on a piano and horns. This is the main weakness of the album. All instruments surrounding Sheff during quieter moments really fail to convince. A feeling that is found too often on songs subdued. Okkervil River works best in rock mode without complex or completely stripped but struggling to find a balance. The quieter tracks at once tinged americana pedal steel and piano seem too loaded and one finds oneself truly is to value the passages where Will Sheff finds himself alone. This balance, however, they are able, the evidence with the superb "Title Track" where the voices and instruments able to complete without ever mixing.
"Black Sheep Boy," opened on the cover of Tim Hardin's song of the same name. This time the Okkervil River decided to honor one of their seniors in closing the album. "John Allyn Smith Sails "Is gradually transformed into" Sloop John B "by Brian Wilson. "I feel so broke up, I want to go home." Very clever one that will detect a recurring theme ...
Okkervil River - Our Life is Not a Movie or maybe
Official Site - Myspace
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