RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

The new one hasn't done much for me (yet?).  Thing is, if you really 
want to know what all the fuss is about, you need to hear the first 
album, "Funeral".  That's the reason people like them.  If you still 
don't like them after that, then, yeah, I suppose it is just a matter of 
taste . . . .

chris



Baby Messy wrote:
> I watched them on SNL the other week and thought..."this is it?...why 
> all the hype?" and I really thought I was missing something in my old 
> age. I mean, as soon as you heard Radiohead you KNEW, love it or hate 
> it, that there was something special there. So maybe I needed to dig 
> deeper, and through the magic of Youtube, etc. I tried. Lord I tried.
>
> My fave CD review cite, warr.org, reviewed them thusly:
>
> Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (2007)
> I wanted to get this warning out as quickly as possible: this Montreal 
> indie septet is possibly the worst, most overhyped critics' fave band 
> I've ever heard. I mean, at least the guy from TV On The Radio can sing. 
> Lead "singer" Win Butler has no range or projection - he sounds like Lou 
> Reed without the accent - and he's probably the best thing about the 
> group. Pretension factor is through the roof with turgidly deep lyrics 
> (title track) and pompous orchestrations (the pseudo-Springsteen "Black 
> Wave, Bad Vibrations"). Meanwhile, musicianship is beneath the 
> floorboards, with rote chord progressions ("Keep The Car Running"; 
> "Antichrist Television Blues") and plodding tempos ("Intervention"; "My 
> Body Is A Cage") - the band members play a zillion different 
> instruments, but find nothing interesting on any of them. The two 
> passable tunes are the typically overblown "No Cars Go" and the uptempo 
> Franz Ferdinand-style rocker "The Well & The Lighthouse": they're still 
> worthless melodically but at least have some energy. (DBW)
>
>
> So whew. I'm not insane. Drinks on me!!!!
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