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Bloc Party - Intimacy
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| Guardian |
| Rush-released as a download three months before the CD, Bloc Party's third album regains the ground lost by Weekend in the City. They've toughened up their sound with orchestral stabs and disembodied dance beats, but crafted some of their strongest tunes. The ghost of Public Image Limited's This Is Not a Love Song hovers on the juddering Mercury - ironic given recent scuffles. Other tracks are more fragile and beautiful. Intimacy's lyrics mostly document Kele Okoreke's 2007 relationship break-up with varying degrees of profundity, but it's hard not to be affected by the disturbingly lovely Biko, where the singer seems anguished that his love isn't strong enough to cure someone's cancer. Brave, individual and heartfelt, Intimacy offers treasure for fans old and new....full text |
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| Slantmagazin |
| What with the 50-cent-words-in-odd-syntax song titles and its construct of being an album from the point of view of a black transsexual named Georgie Fruit and its supposed inspiration in the writings of Jean Genet and its songs that shift wildly in tempo, key and meter seemingly at whim, it's some kind of miracle that Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping largely manages to justify its self-indulgence. As with each of the band's previous efforts, there's an aspect of children of privilege playing underclass dress-up, but playing dress-up is one of the things that Kevin Barnes, the multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter in gold lamé hot pants who more or less makes up the band, does with real aplomb, and it makes for an album that's compelling both in its themes and in its execution....full text |
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| Nytimes |
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Just about everything’s a come-on for John Legend on his sleekly calculated third album, “Evolver.” Watching a girl dance in “Green Light,” he declares, “I’m ready to go right now.” He tries to persuade his best friend to “Cross the Line” into bed. He looks at all the threats and problems in the world as more reasons to get together “Quickly” with his duet partner, Brandy. He starts “This Time,” a song about accidentally running into an ex-lover, as a lonely solo piano ballad; halfway through, as strings build up behind him, he asks, “Can I come see you tonight?” More than likely, he’ll get away with it because the come-ons always sound so sincere. Mr. Legend stays plain and conversational: “I still can’t believe you found somebody new/ But I wish you the best — I guess,” he sings in “Everybody Knows.” As a singer Mr. Legend is approachable, not overbearing, using the touch of grain in his voice in ways he learned from Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Bob Marley (whose reggae he imitates in “No Other Love”). Most of his tracks are far more organic than those of his electronics-loving rival among R&B nice guys, Ne-Yo. Even when Mr. Legend uses programmed beats, he usually tops them with hand-played instruments like his own piano....full text |
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