Slowboat Music Reviews

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Updated : Jul, 30 2010 08:04:47 EDT

The Suburbs
When you call your first album Funeral, you set the bar high in terms of your maturity level. How can any young band evolve toward that full-grown third album after starting out with a meditation on death and grief? It's no problem for Arcade Fire â€“ these Montreal indie rockers ...
Publ.Date : Jul, 21 2010 08:00:00 EDT

True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 2
With its extremely hot naked people eating each other, True Blood is HBO's most rock & roll show. No surprise, then, that it snagged new songs from major artists (Lucinda Williams, Beck), along with some devilish oldies (13th Floor Elevators, Screamin' Jay Hawkins). Williams explores sex, death and regret with ...
Publ.Date : Jun, 22 2010 15:01:00 EDT

Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Big Boi's first official solo album is a stunning reminder of the OutKast rapper's hall-of-fame skills: He's got an inimitably slick and speedy flow and a personality bigger and more forceful than anything his producers can throw at him, from Scott Storch's clobbering electro funk ("Shutterbugg") to Lil Jon's eerie ...
Publ.Date : Jul, 06 2010 10:58:00 EDT

Korn III: Remember Who You Are
Korn have intellectualized their splenic new-metal as they've declined commercially. But their ninth disc jettisons layered samples and pointy-headed craft for a live-band blitz, mutating the bleakest aspects of rap, rock, funk and industrial into a molten attack. "I'm such a stupid fuck/Listening to my head and not my gut," ...
Publ.Date : Jul, 13 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Streets of Gold
"We could do an album or we could do it viral/Spread it like an STD you got back in high school," boasts Sean Foreman. Give the Colorado "crunkcore" duo accuracy points: Streets of Gold is about as pleasant as a case of genital herpes. The formula is the same: dopey ...
Publ.Date : Jun, 22 2010 15:48:00 EDT

We Walk This Road
Hooking up with the jam-band scene may have been the worst thing Robert Randolph could have done. Though amazing live, he has never recorded a great album â€“ until now. Randolph puts overcooked funk on the back burner and offers up his specialty: pure gospel spiced with steel guitar. Producer ...
Publ.Date : Jun, 22 2010 12:50:00 EDT

Teflon Don
In the past two years, Miami MC Rick Ross has been dissed by 50 Cent, mocked as a phony gangsta when photos surfaced of his tenure as a corrections officer, and slapped with a $10 million lawsuit by his namesake, reformed drug kingpin Freeway Ricky Ross. He's also made the ...
Publ.Date : Jul, 20 2010 21:30:00 EDT

Love King
The-Dream has said his third album is "deeper than space," but it's more like a victory lap â€“ a plush, pleasure-packed album on which the Atlanta singer-songwriter plays the hyperconfident Lothario and avoids risks. At times the self-described "R&B Gorilla" keeps his touch too light: The melodies here don't stick ...
Publ.Date : Jun, 23 2010 11:27:00 EDT

Fables of the Reconstruction
They hated making it and have often dismissed it, but R.E.M.'s third record, a dark meditation on the soul of the South, has aged brilliantly. Recorded with producer Joe Boyd, Fables explored a craggy interiority they'd later smooth out; Peter Buck's moss-hung jangle and Michael Stipe's benedictive mumbling lent themselves ...
Publ.Date : Jul, 12 2010 11:45:00 EDT

The Pretty Reckless
Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen has a voice that sounds older than her 16 years â€“ a throaty wail that suggests somebody's been buying her loads of cigarettes. It's the most interesting thing about this debut EP, which is long on generic hard-rock riffs and gothic poetry. "Goin' Down" is ...
Publ.Date : Jun, 29 2010 13:45:00 EDT

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