LAMBCHOP-Slipped Dissolved And Loosed
“Their best record for a decade” (sometimes stretched up to two) was one of the most repeated mottos by musical reviewers this year, showing the huge number of veteran glories, mostly from the nineties and the eighties, that polished their decaying careers once again, pushed in many cases by the live circuit’s good health and growing demand for established names. None of the following Academy’s heroes from the past gave their best shot in 2008, but at least they generated welcome signs of creative recovery.
“Su mejor disco en una década” (a veces se estiraba hasta dos) se ha convertido en una de las cantinelas más repetidas durante el año por la crítica musical para constatar la cantidad de veteranas glorias, mayormente de los noventa y ochenta, que volvían a dar lustre a sus decaídas carreras, motivados en muchos casos por el empuje que la buena salud de los circuitos del directo y su creciente demanda de músicos consagrados proporcionaba. Ninguno de los siguientes héroes del pasado de la Academia nos obsequió con su mejor esfuerzo, pero todos ofrecían señales inequívocas de recuperación creativa.
The Week That Was (10-02-2010): Toro Y Moi; A Single Man; Efterklang; The Soft Pack; Electrik Six…
Another busy week packed with good records, it began with promising duo’s Toro Y Moi –one of the purveyors of the trendy glo-fi sound- launching their debut album “Causers Of This”, which amply fulfils all the expectations surrounding them.
From Austin, Texas, Shearwater the side, folk-tinged project of some Okkervil River members are previewing their … Read more