Like most British pop, Lily Allen's debut album, Alright, Still, overflows with impeccably shiny, creative productions. However, Allen attempts to set herself apart from the likes of Rachel Stevens, Natasha Bedingfield, and Girls Aloud with a cheeky, (mostly) amusing vindictive streak in her lyrics that belies the sugarcoated sounds around them. ...As with Nellie McKay (another young, opinionated woman eager to make herself the maverick in her chosen style of music), the dichotomy between Allen's sweet sou...   [ read more ]

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Eager Hands and Restless Feet is a collection of hits from the long career of Tony Allen, probably best known as the musical director and drummer extraordinaire for Fela Kuti and Afrika '70. While the focus of this album is largely on his solo endeavors, there is a stray item with the rest of Kuti's band present on "African Message." The album starts out with the title track from Allen's solo debut, No Discrimination, which provides relatively straightforward Afro-beat. This is foll...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. In 2006, the band self-released an EP every month of the year. Fifty-eight songs later, Bishop Allen's pop smarts sound timeless, escaping the indie-pop idiom and revealing a language informed by The Kinks, Dylan, and The Zombies. On this, their sophomore album, the band made a quantum leap. Of its twelve songs, ten are reworded tracks from the EPs and two are previously unreleased. These are not just re-recordings. The songs' arrangements have grown, the production is lush, the lyrics are fr...   [ read more ]

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