2010-6-4 23:05
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The Drums - The Drums (2010) [Indie]
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Artist: The Drums
Title: The Drums
Label: Island
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 174kbit av.
Time: 00:43:18
Size: 56.71 mb
Rip Date: 2010-06-04
Str Date: 2010-06-08
01. Best Friend 3:26
02. Me And The Moon 3:12
03. Lets Go Surfing 2:55
04. Book Of Stories 3:38
05. Skippin' Town 3:22
06. Forever And Ever Amen 4:27
07. Down By The Water 3:26
08. It Will All End In Tears 3:44
09. We Tried 3:46
10. I Need Fun In My Life 3:27
11. I'll Never Drop My Sword 3:47
12. The Future 4:08
[quote]Release Notes:
The New York quartet The Drums are perhaps the highest profile
exponents of the current trend of American indie bands attempting to
re-deploy the sounds and attitudes of the British new-wave era.
The New York quartet The Drums are perhaps the highest profile
exponents of the current trend of American indie bands attempting to
re-deploy the sounds and attitudes of the British new-wave era.
They're less slavish than some ?their appropriation of nimble Johnny
Marr-esque arpeggiated guitar figures, skeletal New Order-style rhythm
patterns and undulating synth lines is harnessed here to a pop
sensibility that draws on even earlier modes. The careering bassline of
last year's breakthrough single "Let's Go Surfing" evokes the hedonist
thrust of some 1960s garage surf-band, heading pell-mell in their
woodie to catch a wave, while at the opposite extreme, the slow,
impassioned love song "Down by the Water" has the earnest naivete of
classic girl-group pop from that same era.
But it's perhaps album opener "Best Friend" that best demonstrates
their favoured tropes: the terse, mechanistic beat, as if programmed on
some primitive drum-machine, underpins a jaunty African guitar twinkle
in the fashionable Vampire Weekend manner, with Jonathan Pierce's
somewhat epicene vocal style bringing suitably dramatic emotion to a
lyric about a deceased friend. Often throughout the album, Pierce will
effectively abandon words for strings of wordless scat passages that
serve to throw the focus back on to the melodic hooks ?which,
fortunately, are the band's most agreeable aspect.
Time and again, though, I found my attention distracted by the brittle
artifice of The Drums' music: it often seems as if their primary
intention is the creation of an excessively synthetic sound, the sonic
equivalent of fake E-number food flavourings.
There's a similar sense of disingenuous innocence about some of
Pierce's lyrics, a strategy seemingly designed to lure the listener
into deceptive acceptance of more complex positions. His relationships
are rarely smooth sailing: in "Book of Stories" he concedes, "I thought
my life would get easier/ Instead, it's getting tougher without you";
while his dispassionate attitude to another's misery in "It Will All
End in Tears" is just a hard-hearted response to deceit: "I don't feel
sorry when you cry... because your eyes are always saying goodbye."
Many of the album's best lines are the result of this sort of
observational acuity, most notably the tragically cooling romance
sketched in "Me and the Moon": "It's another night with that look in
your eye... but you still sleep with your back to me."
It's claimed that seven of the album's 12 songs were recorded the very
first time that Pierce visited fellow Drums founder Jacob Graham at the
latter's Florida base ?a prodigious spurt of inspiration reflected in
their shared summer theme ?with the more melancholy remainder
triggered later by what the singer refers to as his "winter of
discontent". If that's true, they probably needn't worry about coming
up with enough material for That Difficult Second Album; but next time,
they might try polishing the songs a bit more[/quote]
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