The real sound of 2014: VIRAL VIDEOS…
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Brad Shoup: I do hope windchimes aren’t going to be a thing.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: Sadly not Nas’s brother of “Oochie Wally” infamy, but a secretive duo due to do Hype Machine numbers this year, littering the background of their tracks with crumpling that sounds like chimes. Or car keys. (I have a carabiner y’see.) Otherwise, “Platoon” is second Yeasayer album moustache-mysticism, applied well enough but without many other defining characteristics.
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Anthony Easton: This is a very amusing piece of fun. How well-crafted it is betrays an emptiness of content. When certain critics call a painting “decorative,” they mean things that look like this sounds.
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Crystal Leww: This is dreary trend-chasing, lad dance music for boys who don’t actually like to dance but instead sway alone without affection.
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Alfred Soto: Anguished Tunde Adebimpe-esque vocals over distorto-bass and guitar and cool choo-choo effects. The sum of the parts don’t add up to sums either.
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Katherine St Asaph: Mushmouth bibble-gloom with a beat. (Added a point because I can’t stop finding “BBC Sound of 2014: Jungle!” funny, or else because I really like mushmouth bibble-gloom with a beat.)
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