Apparently many of the songs had to be re-recorded in a lower key because singer Bill Kaulitz's voice had broken.
Happily, none of the cheesiness is lost in translation - such songs as Monsoon, Love Is Dead, Don't Jump and Final Day all contain a satisfying quota of rock'n'roll cliches. For their first foray into the international arena, they've taken songs from both albums and written English lyrics. Looking like Hanson in their heyday, and fronted by pretty- boy twins, Tokio Hotel are already big stars at home, with two chart- topping German-language albums to their name. The Germans are past masters at windblown poodle rock (The Scorpions, Accept), and this teen metal quartet from the Magdeburg have all the moves and headshakes down pat. Impressionable teens might just get suckered the rest can see from miles away what Paramore are up to. Their music hits the buttons that it needs to hit: punk rock guitars blend with radio-ready rackets, the kind of noise we've heard so many times before and the kind of lyrics that combine teenage angst with hope (For a Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic). Signed to the label that discovered emo kingpins Fall Out Boy, Tennessee's Paramore - a quartet of fresh-faced Christians with an Avril Lavigne fixation - are more toxic than Parazone and somewhat less demanding than a paradox. My head is starting to hurt just when you thought it was safe to start liking the music you hear coming out of yours kids' bedrooms, a silly record such as this comes along and makes you run for cover. KEVIN COURTNEYĭownload Tracks:In a Coma, Hole in Your Heart It's all big and bold, but strip away the arrangements and what's left are average tunes in need of beefing up. In a Coma is wide awake with musical possibilities, Rust & Dust is all spirit and polish, while Hole in Your Heart is filled with the kind of giant orchestral sound that could fill Abbey Road's Studio 2. Moon Rock isn't a space opera, but Steel has put a lot of work into the arrangements in an effort to create soaring pop epics. He sounds like a psychedelic Mika, as his full-bodied falsetto surfs agilely over spaced-out, speeded-up 1960s pop reminiscent of The Beach Boys, High Llamas and, less impressively, boypop brothers Alessi. He recorded his debut (a concept album, no less) for just 200 quid, grabbing the attention of such pop luminaries as Andy Partridge and Van Dyke Parks. DEANNA ORTIZĭownload tracks:We Will Have Vanished, What Gives?, What's Up Freaks?īrighton's Paul Steel is a one-man psychedelic candy factory, spouting out summery tunes like a multi- coloured tennis ball machine. Yet it's an odd sonic buffet that catches - like a settling fog. While there are genuinely decent tracks here, the heavily textured quilt that is Ditherer confronts you like a manic depressive, both confused by its mood swings and proud of its unpredictability. Having released two electronic/hip-hop albums on Ninja Tune's soulful label, Fog frontman Andrew Broder pimps his second Lex Records rock album by adding collaborators (Andrew Bird, Why?, members of Low) and two new band members. The result might resemble Fog's Ditherer.
Take a rock album, add a pinch of early Soundgarden, a hint of Trent Reznor's electronic industrialism, and mix in the clanging kinetic rhythm of The Beatles' Taxman.
JIM CARROLLĭownload tracks:Bruised from Kisses, Satellite Be it the magnificently arranged Bruised from Kisses, the shimmering Satellite or the sturdy drag and drawl of Manmade, this is an album drafted with longevity in mind. Murray's ability to fashion fantastic, note- perfect songs now goes hand in hand with a sound which actually credits rather than debits his craft. Beefier and much more rhythmic than their debut, Charm Offensive sounds as cocky as hell, but for good reason. In the interim, there have been some changes onboard (Stephen Murray's new shipmates include singers Sue Rose and C Lee Baker) and the sound has also undergone a bit of a metamorphosis. In the three years since their Kindness debut put a smile on many faces with its glorious, spine-tingling, sky-scraping instant anthems, The Radio have enjoyed peer acclaim, oodles of radio play and much love from the makers of Grey's Anatomy.
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