!!!/Louden up now/Myth takes
Often you read a description of music that leaves you salivating, but when you hear it, you're left fairly unmoved. If I tell you that Band X makes mostly upbeat party music, heavily influenced by turn of the 80s punk-funk, you are going to want it. And if it's LCD Soundsystem, you'll be glad you got it; if it's the Klaxons, not so glad.If it's !!!, you're likely to be thinking, meh. It's the most meh music you could imagine for the most part. I have quite a lot of music like this in my collection. There's nothing wrong with it. You could put it on in the background and you're not all switch that shit off. But you're not loving it. (I'm listening to some like that now, as it happens: Mono's Gone, which is a collection of EPs that just aren't as good as their albums, but aren't so bad that you hate to listen to them.)
Some of it rises above the mehness. Heart of hearts is a belter, a driving funker that keeps it up for fiveish minutes. (But note how hard it is to say anything about it: it just sort of goes about its business--the bass pumps, the drums thump, some chicks chick it up, some guy sings something about hearts of hearts.) Maybe I'd like it more if I went to more parties. It's hard to get into the party spirit when your view is the curtains.
posted by Dr Zen @ 10:37 am
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