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| Musicomh |
 Now with added bassist, Cryptacize have elaborated on the sound that could be found on their Dig That Treasure release. They're still reassuringly weird though - as any band who pick their drummer based on a YouTube cowbell video, as they did, would be. Then again, perhaps they're not that weird. After all, they are essentially a pop band, albeit a pop band who ransack a bygone age for inspiration. Maybe pop was just a bit weirder back in those days. When was the last time we had a song like Lola, Baby Sitting Boogie or Leader Of The Pack? It's been a while. If you were digging through a box of old seven inch singles and randomly picked any of these songs, you'd think nothing of it. Every single song on here sounds as if it has been plucked from the '60s, stuck on vinyl, and hidden away in the attic for some lucky soul to find and play back-to-back. While that would go against the laws of physics and therefore defies possibility, with Cryptacize it is exactly the kind of thing you can imagine happening if you try....full text |
| Nytimes |
| Pleasure — its acquisition, its experience, its discontents — has always mattered to Depeche Mode, now almost 30 years into a career of turn-ons and come-downs. But “Sounds of the Universe,” the group’s 12th studio album, is about something more common and less complex: the joy of running in place. Here the band — Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher — is in familiar orbit: rigorous songwriting, largely by Mr. Gore; melancholic and desperate singing by Mr. Gahan; and propulsive production that’s accented with industrial friction. But while it lacks the fragility of 1984’s “Some Great Reward” or the earned attitude of 1990’s “Violator,” it’s unmistakably an attempt at revisiting the past, admirable either as an act of defiant stubbornness or tenacious commitment....full text |
| Pitchfork |
| Here's the paradox of Chris Cohen's post-Deerhoof canon: We love its infantile, gee-golly-mister tone, yet his better work is usually celebrated as sounding "grown up" or "mature," literally and/or figuratively. On the last album from the Curtains, another of his former bands, Cohen finally wrangled his Pandora's box of ideas into structured songs, and the group's growth smacked of something like developmental biology. Founded with singer Nedelle Torrisi, Cryptacize prods Cohen into more "adult" territory, though the group's debut still evinced cringe-worthy cuteness in songs like "Cosmic Sing-a-long", which contained the mantra "Every note is an unfinished song." Considering Cohen's penchant for penning so much loose, unfinished-sounding material, that's a tough ethos to get behind. Fortunately, Mythomania resurrects the gravitas Cohen contributed to The Runners Four while also retaining a childlike sense of wonder....full text |
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