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Poor Brian Wilson’s masterpiece, Pet Sounds was a combination of pop music and beautiful symphonics that had never been seen before, a huge milestone in the process of merging art with pop music and a universal, timeless statement about what it means to let go of your innocence and become a man.
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Dr. Dog is a band oft derided by critics and indie snobs for wearing their famous influences on their sleeves – The Beatles, The Beach Boys – but it would take the iciest of hearts or the most doggedly analytical of minds to prevent oneself from enjoying the songs on this album: the laid back, building opener (“The Breeze”), the flurrying piano of “The Old Days”, or the climactic and near-perfect finale, “My Friend”.
Listening to album highlights like “Black Rice”, it’s not hard to describe Women’s pounding, jangly, guitar pop sound as an enjoyable cross between the Velvet Underground and the hiss and fuzz of modern noise rock, though they could benefit from a little more of the former and a little less of the latter.
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Ultimately more solid and sincere than their first hit-spawning release, The Odd Couple sees producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse pushing his super-infectious, nostalgically fun pop sounds to even further heights and Cee-Lo pushing his impressive voice into deeper realms of madness and performance.
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If you read a lot of music news blogs you’ll know that MGMT are pretty much everywhere these days, but they’re not all hype: Oracular Spectacular is not mind-blowing but it’s got a lot of entertainment value, filled with shimmering and sparkling psychedellic funk songs that explore themes of childhood and stardom while touring new yet strangely familiar planes of pop influence.
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Astoundingly uninspired and far from sexy, it’s quite surprising to hear these sassy Brazilian electro-rockers churn out such a yawn-inducing collection of repetitive and boring dance punk tunes.
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