Wild Beasts "The Devil's Crayon" - Given that the main attraction of the Wild Beasts has been the distinct singing voice of their frontman Hayden Thorpe, their latest single "The Devil's Crayon" is something of a curveball: It's a duet between Thorpe and his bandmate Tom Fleming.
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The band express this impulse with remarkable clarity and style -- the guitars stab and slash, the beat hurtles forward, and Pearl's lyrics hit this ideal balance of idiocy and brilliance: "Eating pizza is really great / so is destroying everything you hate!"
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All of the new songs were exciting, and the performances of "So. Central Rain," "These Days," "Ignoreland," and "Let Me In" were outstanding. That said, I'll be writing more about the actual concert later on, so for now, let's talk about Accelerate.
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Basically, Tom and a few of his listeners came up with the lyrics, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists put it all together and recorded it before the end of the show. ( Click here for the official Ted Leo site, and here for the Best Show On WFMU.)
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Like Mercury Rev, Erica Quitzow lives and works somewhere up in the north of the Hudson Valley -- New Paltz, I think? -- but unlike them, her music doesn't really have much to do with the upstate aesthetic.
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Like Mercury Rev, Erica Quitzow lives and works somewhere up in the north of the Hudson Valley -- New Paltz, I think? -- but unlike them, her music doesn't really have much to do with the upstate aesthetic.
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Taken at face value, it's very amusing and his craft is dazzling, but really, this is more than just a goofy, boastful skit extended to a full-length track; it's the sound of a genius who is totally exasperated by the people who ought to be considered his peers.
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Okay, so you know how Europeans are always like "ugh, Americans don't understand irony," and it's really smug, and you want to get defensive and say "hey, I can process irony, and I can tell when someone is kinda taking the piss, especially in a pop song!"?
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Douglas Armour "Fall Apart Again" - The character in "Fall Apart Again" is desperate to express himself to his partner, and trying very hard to get on the same page, but something isn't working. ( Click here to buy it from The Social Registry.)
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