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10 ALBUMS THAT DIDN'T SUCK ASS IN 2001:
BETA BAND • Hot Shots II - I once saw the Beta Band listed as an emo-rock band. Fuck whoever wrote that shit. Hot Shots II, like the Beta Band, is playful, noisy and a good time. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but the music and production on it surpasses almost anything else out there today.
BJORK • Vespertine - What can I say about Bjork that hasn’t been said already? I had sex with her. Just kidding. Beautiful, subtle, layered wonderfully, mixed superbly, and about as complete a package as you can get from an artist. But you already knew that didn’t you?
DAVID BYRNE • Look Into the Eyeball - Ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne throws another solo album at us. Thank God. Byrne, who started up his own label named Luaka Bop, gives us twelve songs of guilty pleasures. Poppy, but oh-so-fun, Eyeball is a shining high point for Byrne.
CAKE • Comfort Eagle - The fourth installment from the Sacramento-based group known as Cake. Comfort Eagle proves one thing to listeners: that Cake is in it to win it. Sure they had a couple radio hits, but don’t hold that against them. They’re talented and thorough as hell.
DJ SHADOW AND CUT CHEMIST • Product Placement - Product Placement picks up where its predecessor, Brainfreeze, left off. But it’s better. It’s a DJing masterpiece. Think of every commercial you saw as a child during Saturday morning cartoons mixed with late night infomercials.
CHARLIE HADEN • Nocturne - Imagine dwelling within Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”, if the diner were located in the cozier part of Twin Peaks, and the jazz band decided to pay lunar homage to an endearing breed of Latin music. That’s this.
NATHANIEL MERRIWEATHER • Lovage: Songs to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Handsome Boy Gorilla Dan the Automator weighs in with his conceptual and musical finest, as Mike Patton and the chick from Elysian Fields leave you asking, "Can I get my Wild Bunny Style on to this?"
OZOMATLI • Embrace the Chaos - Ozo picks up the slack with a looser, rawer, bilingual call to revolution. Fuck the system, one dance step at a time.
THE RANCID YAK BUTTER TEA PARTY • The Rancid Yak Butter Tea Party - Like Slip n' Sliding through space with Lemmy Kilmster and Stimpy, wearing only a suit of tin foil. It's the appetizer for their live show, which God told me to tell you to see.
SAUL WILLIAMS • Amethyst Rock Star - The Muhammed Ali of microphones-- so graceful, so pretty, so poetic. And so clubbing you about the head like a fixed-fight bitch. It's an audio ass-whooping worth taking.
BETA BAND • Hot Shots II - I once saw the Beta Band listed as an emo-rock band. Fuck whoever wrote that shit. Hot Shots II, like the Beta Band, is playful, noisy and a good time. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but the music and production on it surpasses almost anything else out there today.
BJORK • Vespertine - What can I say about Bjork that hasn’t been said already? I had sex with her. Just kidding. Beautiful, subtle, layered wonderfully, mixed superbly, and about as complete a package as you can get from an artist. But you already knew that didn’t you?
DAVID BYRNE • Look Into the Eyeball - Ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne throws another solo album at us. Thank God. Byrne, who started up his own label named Luaka Bop, gives us twelve songs of guilty pleasures. Poppy, but oh-so-fun, Eyeball is a shining high point for Byrne.
CAKE • Comfort Eagle - The fourth installment from the Sacramento-based group known as Cake. Comfort Eagle proves one thing to listeners: that Cake is in it to win it. Sure they had a couple radio hits, but don’t hold that against them. They’re talented and thorough as hell.
DJ SHADOW AND CUT CHEMIST • Product Placement - Product Placement picks up where its predecessor, Brainfreeze, left off. But it’s better. It’s a DJing masterpiece. Think of every commercial you saw as a child during Saturday morning cartoons mixed with late night infomercials.
CHARLIE HADEN • Nocturne - Imagine dwelling within Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”, if the diner were located in the cozier part of Twin Peaks, and the jazz band decided to pay lunar homage to an endearing breed of Latin music. That’s this.
NATHANIEL MERRIWEATHER • Lovage: Songs to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Handsome Boy Gorilla Dan the Automator weighs in with his conceptual and musical finest, as Mike Patton and the chick from Elysian Fields leave you asking, "Can I get my Wild Bunny Style on to this?"
OZOMATLI • Embrace the Chaos - Ozo picks up the slack with a looser, rawer, bilingual call to revolution. Fuck the system, one dance step at a time.
THE RANCID YAK BUTTER TEA PARTY • The Rancid Yak Butter Tea Party - Like Slip n' Sliding through space with Lemmy Kilmster and Stimpy, wearing only a suit of tin foil. It's the appetizer for their live show, which God told me to tell you to see.
SAUL WILLIAMS • Amethyst Rock Star - The Muhammed Ali of microphones-- so graceful, so pretty, so poetic. And so clubbing you about the head like a fixed-fight bitch. It's an audio ass-whooping worth taking.
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vol 4 - issue 05 (jan 2002)
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entertainmental