It’s Swedish Monday! (Or as it’s known in Sweden, Måndag…)
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Brad Shoup: Teddybears are back, posing questions that were answered 15, 30, 40 years ago. Faceless psych-pop organ and some Britpop cover-band vocalist and the dancehall stylings of Natalie Grant (who’s having more fun than can be believed). Big beat’s concern always was making the sum greater than the parts. Guess it’s harder than it looks.
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David Sheffieck: Frenetically insistent and overstuffed — at times thrillingly so — for how likely it seems that everything will fall apart into a massive jumble of sound. At the same time, if this is the way someone tells you they like you, the safest course of action is probably to back away slowly.
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Megan Harrington: Don’t bother paying close attention to “Sunshine”; the more you hone in on its ingredient overload insanity, the worse it sounds. Listen passively and you’ll still consume a full entree of summer delight, complete with Pierre Henry style bells and whistles.
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Anthony Easton: I would have liked this better without the vocoder, and the line about “wasting all my precious time” with a bit more dark irony.
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Will Adams: What’s more tool-ish: asking someone to be your sunshine, then accusing them of wasting your time; or wasting their time with production so dated it’s cringeworthy?
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Jonathan Bradley: Is there a new Shrek movie out, or did the nostalgia cycle naturally demand a Smash Mouth revival?
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