Label: Sonic Unyon
Category: Music
Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 621617008625
EAN: 0621617008625
ASIN: B00008DKDT
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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Artist: Tangiers
Label: Sonic Unyon Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 621617008625 EAN: 0621617008625 ASIN: B00008DKDT Release Date: 2003-03-18 |
Hot New Spirits
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| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Indie Rock
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
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| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
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Ca Va Cool!.......2003-04-10
Although an undeniable displaced New York vibe does hang heavy over the album, most overtly in the alternately drawled and yelped vocals. On "Anxiety", for example, singer Yuri Didrichsons channels the voice of Jim Carroll so perfectly that the song sounds like a caffeine-jittery outtake from "Catholic Boy". One song later, on the manically propulsive "One Thousand Hands", Josh Reichman does a spot-on impression of Richard Hell . Then James Sayce splits the difference on "Ca Va Cool". If you're counting, that makes three lead vocalists. Fortunately, all three singers share so much in timbre and intensity that the identity of the band stays consistent.
Instrumentally, what Tangiers shares with the Strokes is a rejection of the guitar fuzz that most modern punk/pop/garage bands hide behind, which bares a similar Lou Reed-derived strum'n'chop rhythmic chording that drives each song. But Tangiers twists that template by adding a shrill and twangy undistorted lead overtop of the din, and their songwriting playfully incorporates instrumental breakdowns and sonic digressions. There usually isn't much room to deviate in a three minute pop song, but a full third of "Eyes Shut" is hijacked by a sparse, melodic jam that builds to a perfect crescendo - it's a moment steeped in the simple joy of playing, reminiscent of the coda on the Pixies' "No. 13 Baby", and totally thrilling.
"Hot New Spirits" is an album that gets better and better with each listen. It may not benefit from industry hype or start a fashion revolution - thank god - but look for it to quietly make a surprise appearance on many Top 10's at the end of 2003.
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