“Brooding” is in the top ten, if not top five, of the list of words overused by rock critics.
Some others:
-angular
-elliptical
-jangly
-shambolic
-moody
On that note, few bands make moody, angular, elliptical rock quite as well as the Walkmen, who have a new album, “You & Me,” coming out. Buy it early for only $5 while giving money to charity. Go here.
It sounds good. Much better than the actually quite decent but strangely forgettable “A Hundred Miles Off.” Maybe even as good as 2004’s “Bows and Arrows” — one of the best albums of the decade so far.
Listen to the fine first track, “Donde Esta la Playa”:
August 14, 2008 at 7:10 pm |
And what the begeezus does angular mean in reference to music anyway?