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The Duhks - Fast Paced World
| Courant |
| In the last year and a half, two of the five members of the Duhks have been replaced, among them the lead singer. One thing has remained, though: the group's nose for music that pushes the boundaries of modern roots folk. The Winnipeg band's fourth studio record, "Fast Paced World," is a juicy mixture of components from across the musical spectrum melded into a quirky but cohesive whole....full text |
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| Nytimes |
| On her new album, “How to Walk Away” (Ye Olde), Juliana Hatfield makes a casual study of heartbreak, playing the masochist and the sadist in equal turns. Produced by Andy Chase of the indie-pop band Ivy, the record pairs Ms. Hatfield’s compact songs with an unabashedly commercial sound, a strategy that works about half the time. Songs like “Remember November” and “Such a Beautiful Girl” end up sounding overworked, undeserving of the special treatment. But when Ms. Hatfield presents herself as a wronged partner (“The Fact Remains”), or simply the wrong partner (“Just Lust”), she can be gripping. Though capable of pure callousness — “It was you and me/So I left/Now I’m gone,” as one perfectly frank chorus goes — she never seems heartless. “Reason has no chance in this selfish world,” she declares on “Law of Nature,” the album’s closing track. She’s implicating herself there, and insulating herself too....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| I recall this one time when I was on a road trip with a friend and I decided to slide the Band’s Greatest Hits into the CD player. After some distance was covered and a handful of tracks had played, he asked me, “What is this, some kind of Newfie music?” Now, the specific valences of the term “Newfie” may well be lost on non-Canadian readers, so forgive a brief elaboration. “Newfie” is derogatory slang for a person from the province of Newfoundland, a rocky, forbidding island north of Nova Scotia with strong Celtic roots. The province fell on hard socioeconomic times when the cod disappeared from the Grand Banks, forcing “Newfies” to spread across Canada in search of jobs....full text |
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