iconocaust (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} iconocaust) wrote,@ 2008-03-07 05:31:00 |
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Trax
Beck - "Timebomb" iTunes-only singles seem to be the fad du jour for artists who fancy themselves on the cutting edge, so it's perhaps somewhat inevitable that Beck would jump on the bandwagon sooner or later. Shame, then, that this is as underwhelming as anything off the wretched The Information; some three minutes of fuzzed out electropop chasing its own tail before eventually succumbing to exhaustion. When the Kaiser Chiefs sang "Every Day I Love You Less and Less," I think they were talking about the two of us, Beck.
The Verve - "Slide Away" Yes, it's old. And no, I don't care -- simply put, the guitar work here pisses gallons on the fumble-fingered crap that jokers like Babyshambles see fit to dump onto the airwaves these days. Chilled out and anthemic -- heck, it's just about good enough to earn Richard Ashcroft's spectacularly inane lyrics a pass this time around.
Belle and Sebastian - "Step Into My Office, Baby" A slightly more recent vintage, this. B&S catch a fair deal of flak for writing impossibly cuddly indie candyfloss so sugary that repeat listens may melt your teeth outright, and to be fair, "Office" is all just a bit twee, what with oh-so-clever lyrics like "Want to give you the job/With chance of overtime/Say, my place at nine?" and more bouncy woodwinds than should strictly be legal outside of children's television. But I like it, so nyah.
The Kooks - "Always Where I Need to Be" I don't, however, like this. Maybe it's the fact that it's more of that damnable British indie guitar gubbins, so utterly generic that you wouldn't be surprised to discover that some sadistic bastard computer cranked it out in between denial of service attacks on I Can Has Cheezburger? Maybe it's the fact that a band has the temerity to call itself "The Kooks" and still expect to be taken seriously. Maybe it's those sad little "doo doo doo-dut-dut-dut-dut doo"s in the chorus flailing around like an inbred Hanson. Regardless: it's got to stop.
Young Galaxy - "Come and See" A wispy little slice of noveau-shoegaze, with vocals floating around in the mix like the aural equivalent of actors in front of a Vaseline-smeared camera lens. Not bad but perhaps a little too innocuous for its own good, it's barely more than a sort of musical shrug that neatly passes in one ear and out the other with a minimum of fuss.
Beck - "Timebomb" iTunes-only singles seem to be the fad du jour for artists who fancy themselves on the cutting edge, so it's perhaps somewhat inevitable that Beck would jump on the bandwagon sooner or later. Shame, then, that this is as underwhelming as anything off the wretched The Information; some three minutes of fuzzed out electropop chasing its own tail before eventually succumbing to exhaustion. When the Kaiser Chiefs sang "Every Day I Love You Less and Less," I think they were talking about the two of us, Beck.
The Verve - "Slide Away" Yes, it's old. And no, I don't care -- simply put, the guitar work here pisses gallons on the fumble-fingered crap that jokers like Babyshambles see fit to dump onto the airwaves these days. Chilled out and anthemic -- heck, it's just about good enough to earn Richard Ashcroft's spectacularly inane lyrics a pass this time around.
Belle and Sebastian - "Step Into My Office, Baby" A slightly more recent vintage, this. B&S catch a fair deal of flak for writing impossibly cuddly indie candyfloss so sugary that repeat listens may melt your teeth outright, and to be fair, "Office" is all just a bit twee, what with oh-so-clever lyrics like "Want to give you the job/With chance of overtime/Say, my place at nine?" and more bouncy woodwinds than should strictly be legal outside of children's television. But I like it, so nyah.
The Kooks - "Always Where I Need to Be" I don't, however, like this. Maybe it's the fact that it's more of that damnable British indie guitar gubbins, so utterly generic that you wouldn't be surprised to discover that some sadistic bastard computer cranked it out in between denial of service attacks on I Can Has Cheezburger? Maybe it's the fact that a band has the temerity to call itself "The Kooks" and still expect to be taken seriously. Maybe it's those sad little "doo doo doo-dut-dut-dut-dut doo"s in the chorus flailing around like an inbred Hanson. Regardless: it's got to stop.
Young Galaxy - "Come and See" A wispy little slice of noveau-shoegaze, with vocals floating around in the mix like the aural equivalent of actors in front of a Vaseline-smeared camera lens. Not bad but perhaps a little too innocuous for its own good, it's barely more than a sort of musical shrug that neatly passes in one ear and out the other with a minimum of fuss.
