IT’S A RECRD: Favorite albums of 2008
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- IT’S A RECRD: Favorite albums of 2008
- Jim DeRogatis’ Top 10 albums of 2008
- The Knux rebellion
- The rock music that stuck
- Courtesy Battlefield: Bad Company/Swedish DICE
IT’S A RECRD: Favorite albums of 2008
San Diego Union Tribune CA
Equal parts garage-rock snarl and pop craft by way of Bo Diddley raunch and Phil Spector dazzle “See You in Magic” happily lives up to its name. Jamie Lidell “Jim” (Warp)Born in England and based in Berlin electronic music maverick and turntablist. The real surprise though isn’t his unlikely transformation but just how good he is. Lidell’s debts to Motown and Stax are obvious ditto the influence of.
Jim DeRogatis’ Top 10 albums of 2008
Chicago Sun-Times United States
The Knux “Remind Me in 3 Days” (Interscope)This sibling duo relocated from New rleans to Los Angeles in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and made one of the most inventive and playful hip-hop albums since the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique” or De La Soul’s “3 Feet High and Rising” creating intoxicating and always surprising collages of gurgling analog synths classic-rock guitar riffs clattering percussion lovably cheesy beat-box grooves gleefully melodic hooks gonzo sound effects Valley Girl voiceovers and a thousand other ingredients (plus the kitchen sink). Brazilian Girls “New York City” (Verve)Born in Rome raised in Nice and Munich but so at home in the capital of American polyglot that her group has named its third album in the Big Apple’s honor singer Sabina Sciubba is both the alluring seductress and the threatening dominatrix as she navigates this Brooklyn trio’s irresistible mix of space-age bachelor music the pioneering synthesizer sounds of ’70s legends Kraftwerk and the best of the current underground electronic dance scene. Local H “12 Angry Months” (Shout Factory)From Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” to Marvin Gaye’s “Here My Dear” and from Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” to well almost everything in the Rolling Stones’ catalog rock ‘n’ roll has never suffered from a shortage of great breakup records. Long-running local heroes Scott Lucas and Brian St. Clair made another that very much deserves to be named in such prestigious company an instant classic that will speak to anyone who’s ever endured gut-wrenching heartbreak.
The Knux rebellion
Los Angeles Times CA
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The rock music that stuck
Toronto Star Canada
"This is the stuff I’ve heard in my head for weeks on end the stuff I’ve kept close when I travelled. It’s the stuff that made me gasp and marvel and think of silly year-end lists the same way records made me gasp and marvel and dream of someday compiling silly year-end lists for a living when I was 13. I’m kinda bothered to be honest by how little hip hop and the various electronic musics I so revere have figured in 2008’s survey but why lie? This is what "clicked" last year; some of it I promise will click with you too. F—ed Up The Chemistry of Common Life. Apologies for stooping to such cheap rock-critic shorthand ? especially when I’ve absolutely no doubt that another cheap rock critic has beaten me to the punch ? but what the hell: Hardcore your K Computer has arrived. n a purely visceral level F—ed Up’s gigantic second album uncorks guttural punk-rock catharsis like the first time every time. Half a dozen listens in though the masked hooks it made you work so hard for on "Crooked Head" and "No Epiphany" (inspired perhaps by Dallas Green’s gossamer vocal cameo on "Black Albino Bones") have assumed complete domain over your waking life and an awareness of the stacked shoegazing depths that The Chemistry of Common Life has yet to offer sets in.
Courtesy Battlefield: Bad Company/Swedish DICE
New York Times United States
Not long ago such work “felt like a throwaway for composers who couldn’t get work elsewhere” said Steve Schnur worldwide executive for music and marketing at the software giant Electronic Arts describing the beeps and whirs of early games as “Good Humor truck” music created hastily and late in the development process. Now musical scores — whether rock rap or classical — are becoming an integral part of the finished product often lavishly produced and seamlessly embedded into the story lines and gaming action. Schnur said music “is the reason for the emotional response that games never had 10 to 20 years ago. ” The care now lavished on classical soundtracks is evident not only in the impressive quality of many scores but also in the first-rate performers recruited to record them.
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