Marking her departure from the crowded barnyard of Arrested Development shortly after the success of the band’s first album, New Jersey native Dionne Yvette Farris’ solo debut strikes out on a jazzy, forward-thinking and rock-informed R&B path. Bouncy slide guitar propels both mixes of the infectious and uncommon “I Know” (a hit in ’95) as…
Saint Etienne’s music embraces soaring house rhythms, Petula Clark young sophisticate nightingale vocals and a healthy aesthetic appetite that gives the three Britons license to borrow bits of whatever strikes their fancy. These sonic confectioners tastily mix soulful dance pop and abstract samples in an unusually creamy electronic base, resulting in breezy modern songs of…
The Wrens are probably the only band to ask the musical question “Where’s my fresh diner daisy?” The New Jersey foursome stacks up 25 songs on Silver, a most ambitious debut album. Frenetic guitar stylings in classic post-punk slapdash mode underpin most of the tracks; bassist Kevin Whelan, guitarists Greg Whelan and Charles Bissell and…
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