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It might have been tempting for Young to cut a followup to that exchanged the rainbows for something a little rougher. He sings about cities ablaze with enchantment, footprints in the dust on his cellar stairs, and standing under a waterfall with a kiwi pineapple parasol. (Seriously
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Young, who is something of a Great Communicator himself, is often called an escapist by uncharitable listeners. Real World gives the critics some extra fodder: is a lovely place, sings Young, I wouldn want to live there. But while Owl City spins delightful fantasy, there always more ballast in these hot air balloons than there initially seems to be
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Celtic rockers Flogging Molly have been putting out albums for more than a decade now and, with each release, it seems like the band becomes further radicalized, and the music becomes more palatable to mainstream tastes
http://www.allgoneibiza.com. Some might call this a contradiction, but frontman Dave King is a bighearted populist, and he looking to reach as many people with his incendiary message as he can. On of Darkness, King and Flogging Molly step back from the poetics of the band 2008 release, in favor of goforthethroat street storytelling and leftist sloganeering. King has put his money (or lack of it) where his mouth is he moved from Los Angeles to Detroit, the devastated town he sees as a potential cradle of revolution. He addresses his adopted home on Power Out, a tale of defiance amidst foreclosure, layoffs and welfare lines. On the singalong Shut Down, he renounces violence, but warns that it may be inevitable if economic conditions don improve. Longtime Flogging Molly fans may miss the chaotic Celtic ramble of the band earlier work, but the accordions, fiddles and banjos haven gone anywhere. And many of the album most effective moments are its prettiest especially Prayer for Me in Silence, a duet with violinist Bridget Regan.
First things first: This is a terrific little album. It terrific mostly because of the chops and musical imagination of White Denim, and it little because of its brevity, and the blissful contentment with rock tradition that it radiates. Nobody in this Austin quartet is worried about contemporary altrock trends, but White Denim isn exactly a revival act, either. It probably best to say that they capture the spirit of late psychedelic favorites without succumbing to fussy formalism. So while Joy and aren counterfeit Jerry Garcia compositions, White Denim fusion of folk, jazz, country and experimental music suggests some of the freewheeling excitement that surrounded the Dead circa The flutedriven to Consider won be mistaken for early Jethro Tull or Santana, but it extends good ideas by both bands. The instrumental raveup the Farm is a Trafficstyle pastoral celebration. Tightly constructed and without a wasted minute, is a powerful argument for the continued relevance of classic rock. And rhythm section Steve Terebecki (bass) and Josh Block (drums) can do the Southern boogie as well as any band at Bonnaroo
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