Wednesday, August 28, 2013

!!! (chk chk chk) "Thr!!!er"

 
Help me out by clicking here to go back to my post on this band's last album in 2010.  Thank you.  Saves time.  I made many of the same comparisons as before, i.e. Scissor Sisters, Radio 4, LCD Soundsystem, etc..  "Sweaty and loose" has now morphed into "funky and loose" on this album and it is positively outstanding!  For example, when the vocalist starts working the falsetto, I noted similarities to The Ohio Players, Prince, The Bee Gees and Dag, whom none of you probably know, but was an excellent white-boy funk band from North Carolina in the 90's.  Now a visual funk example culled from a French public radio station...
 
 
Slightly restrained and off-key (never said the dude was an excellent singer) but if you didn't pick up on the "Stayin' Alive" riff in there...what cave have you been residing?!  Now here is another track from the record performed live just three days ago.  The audio is clean but the camera tries to follow the singer so it's a bit frantic...
 
 
A review or two mentioned a Rolling Stones "Some Girls" connection and dammit if those shorts aren't the album cover.  I also got more of a New Wave feel from "Thr!!!ler" than the post punk of the previous album.  I shouted "Heaven 17" at more than one point during my spins.
 
All you fools who bought the Daft Punk RAM record and sent it to #1 on at least twenty charts owe this band a chance.  I'll take "Thr!!!er" over that piece of calculated crap EVERY day...

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