THE JOHNNY BOY - Johnny Boy reviews
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| StylusMagazine |
 So, pop and politics. Never comfortable bedfellows, are they? Pop's nature—the generalizations, the reduction—tends to make for didactic and preachy politics, while political discourse, well, tends to be kind of a downer. When they collide, one side always loses: “Diamonds From Sierra Leone” had one of Kanye's most limp-dick beats on it, and do we ever need to discuss “American Life” again? It's come to the point where, these days, the idea of pop stars going political (yes, even Bono, who plainly means it for real) reeks to some of cynical calculation; hitching their shiny-object glamour to an issue can seem imperial at best (and exploitative at worst). ...full text |
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| Drowned in sound |
| Back in 2004 Johnny Boy released the wonderfully-titled single ‘You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve’. Corralling ‘60s girl-group pop, John Barry orchestration and a passionate attack on consumerism, Johnny Boy had constructed their very own Wall of Sound™. Knowingly retro, but with enough contemporary resonance, they sidestepped pastiche pit-falls to produce something fresher than just-spilt blood. The music press duly exhausted their big book of superlatives in an attempt to describe the Johnny Boy sound. This was something special....full text |
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| PitchFork |
| Here's a theory: For a genre to legitimize itself, it needs to have more than just good artists; you also need bad or mediocre ones to provide contrast. In the still embryonic field of indie rock-dance, we've been blessed with an early run of quality bands, like Love Is All, The Go! Team, and United State of Electronica. Taking inspiration from primary dance sources like Daft Punk and the Avalanches rather than the already rock-filtered sound of Gang of Four or Happy Mondays, these groups have kept the indie kids from regressing to crossed-arms days, opening up new avenues of high-energy questionable-fi genre scrapbooks along the way....full text |
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