Listening to DeVotchKa's third album, any aging '80s indie kid will fall into a what-if daydream. Remember when Morrissey broke up the Smiths? Maybe instead of going solo, the Mozzer should have hooked up with Peter Solowka, who at the time was starting up his own solo project outside the confines of the Wedding Present, a tongue-in-cheek blending of U.K. indie {guitar pop} and the sounds of his Eastern European homeland called the Ukrainians. DeVotchKa's How It Ends is a dead-brilliant amplification of wh...   [ read more ]

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Cancel/Sing represents Karate's foray into longer song structures. The idea was to take the simple structures that Karate has dealt with in past recordings and see how far they could be stretched without destroying their integrity as "songs". "Cancel" is a very simple melody-verse-chorus style song that evolves into an extended improvised section that steadily builds energy until it ends with a free, sound-oriented improvisation. "Sing" is the more orchestrated of the two. It is centered on a melodic th...   [ read more ]

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CD FORMAT. How exciting it is to come across an album about which you know nothing, by a band you've never heard of, trailing no distracting hype whatsoever, and discover that it is wonderful. From Salem, Massachusetts, Magic Magic are led by John Francis Murphy, whose high, jaded tenor lends songs such as "Jellyfish" and "Tahiti" a genuinely sinister air. His lyrics are strange, too. The opening track, "Over Your Heart," seems to be about totalitarianism and individualism, both of the emotional and the go...   [ read more ]

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