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December 5, 2010Lovers “Dark Light”
December 5, 2010I can really get into this modern take of classic synthpop. There’s nothing original about it, but this is a template that can be repeated ad nauseam, and I’ll never tire of it.
“Barnacle” fits right in with just about any college radio station’s format. “Boxer” has a melody that initially made me think of Book of Love’s “Boy,” but the accompaniment is much darker. It’s still good, though.
Lovers have songs that don’t start with “B” also. “Peppermint” is a little more plodding, and this six-minute bathroom break works well in a movie but not so much here. It’s guitar wanking without the wanking.
“To Be a Dancer (I Am Alive)” has a good beat, and you can dance to it if your jeans aren’t too tight. “Cedar Falls” is the last track from this Portland band. It’s no theme song for Burgerville, but it is a nice slow ballad to get you out of the record. The synths sound a little too plastic on it, but it’s got better mixing on the vocals.
You really can’t go wrong on this one if you’re into indie rock with some synth in the background.
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December 2, 2010Joel’s Hit Show, Episode 87, 1 December 2010 Playlist
December 1, 2010Modern Guy, Electrique Sylvie
Patti Smith, Beneath the Southern Cross
Kendra Smith, Temporarily Lucy
Dirty Projectors, Two Doves
Sneaker Pimps, Post-Modern Sleaze
Touch My Rash, Single by Choice
The Soviettes, Photograph
Miss TK and the Revenge, Posi Tip
The Softies, Pack Your Things and Go
Solex, Mere Imposters
Belle and Sebastian, Come On Sister
The Sounds, Seven Days a Week
Sonic Youth, The Diamond Sea
James, It’s Hot
Soft Cotton County, On a Roll
Some Girls, Social Control
The Black Angels, Yellow Elevator #2
Soda., Water Pistols
Son Volt, Sultana
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Schroedinger’s Cat
The Spinanes, Sunday
Spiral Beach, We Saw Ghosts
Defiance, Ohio, The Reason
Regina Spektor, Fidelity
Stars, Fixed
Diet Kong, Skin Color Crayon
Staci Twigg, He Said
Typsy Panthre, Hitch-Hiker
Lower Dens, Holy Water
Squirrelhouse, Fours
Talulah Gosh, Talulah Gosh
Azure Ray, Shouldn’t Have Loved
Shannon Stephens, Deliverance
Stereolab, Self Portrait With “Electric Brain”
Sarah Kirkland Snider, The Stranger With the Face of a Man I Loved
Marnie Stern, Grapefruit
Stereo Total, Miau Miau
Oh Land, Sun of a Gun
Sugarcubes, Hit
Sub Debs, 12XU
Kelly McFarling, On Your Terms
Summer Cats, Lonely Planet
Suran Song in Stag, Polybucket Radio
Deluka, OMFG
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