Kid_A

I instead started and finished with "To everybody," which I liked quite a bit, but for some mysterious reason, it remains the only album of theirs that I have. I need to get back to studying, and given the comments above, I think I’ll start from the debut album. Kudos to the excellent reviewer, knowledgeable and selective.

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After this clarification, I raise the rating to five and retreat with my tail between my legs.

I wanted to give the album a 4, sorry, I'm averaging it out.

good album, a fairly accessible post-rock. Fairly brief review, a bit hasty and cursory perhaps. Then the "reverberations that emphasize the consonants" I'm not sure I understood that. Can you explain it to me?

This review is fair and just. The album, I admit, bored me and I couldn’t get beyond the second listen, but I know it’s a great work. It’s just that my musical taste and critical abilities are inevitably deteriorating. Please forgive me. :-)

Hi Nick. As you know well, the English press has a physiological need to invent a new musical phenomenon every 3-4 months. Many of these groups (including those mentioned above) are literally "seduced and abandoned" by critics, who promote them for a few months and then discard them for the next big thing. After the hype, it often becomes clear that the artists in question were honest musicians, but with very little new to say (and here I’m referring specifically to the Kaisers and the Bloc). When they then move to their second effort, it’s evident that they have already become stuck in a loop (and you rightly mentioned Franz Ferdinand). My personal opinion is that the only truly relevant phenomenon highlighted by the English press in recent years has been Interpol, but it’s no coincidence that Chemical Underground was behind them, which guarantees quality. Since I now hear the buzz building around these Long Blondes, I wanted to clarify that this time I’m starting off skeptical, even though their album is certainly noteworthy.

I must confess, Target, that I’m always a bit skeptical about all the new phenomena hyped by the English press (especially by NME) after seeing so many of them burn out like a match (Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Editors, Arctic Monkeys, etc.). They are undoubtedly talented, but also very clever, with this (yet another) vintage look (Jackson seems to have stepped out of Bonnie & Clyde, and it’s hard to deny, she’s truly sexy) and this mix of punk rock and power pop that seems tailor-made to awaken the appetites of influential music critics, all now in their fifties and perpetually prone to nostalgia. Anyway, the album is quite enjoyable, and "Giddy Stratospheres" is among the most interesting tracks I’ve heard this year. For now, a suspicious four. If they can sustain themselves in the long run, I’ll come back here to make amends.

Yoghi, it seems to me that since my nickname is what it is, I should be dealing with "serious" records, like the one I’m named after, instead of "wasting time with this stuff" (ipse dixit). If that's what you mean, in a discussion like this, I can't help but notice a certain arrogance (increasingly widespread alas) towards all those emerging artists or perhaps those who have remained for years in the anonymous shadows of the indie scene and who, rightly or wrongly, have never ascended to the status of "classics." This seems foolish to me because in this musical limbo there are true gems that sometimes deserve to be highlighted. I believed this album to be one of those, which is absolutely debatable. And in my comment above, I also meant to call out this ever more popular practice of placing one's scornful comments towards a certain artist or genre, without providing any rational justification other than one's own pomposity. If I misunderstood you, I apologize.

But is it just my impression, or is the dismissive comment that summarizes an album in two words the new trend on DeBaser? The rating might be excessive (personal opinions, of course), but I truly don't understand why, with the nickname I have, I shouldn’t spend time on "this stuff." There's a bit of arrogance floating around, huh.