{"id":4304,"date":"2012-10-03T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2012-10-03T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:20:07","slug":"new-music-revue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/10\/03\/new-music-revue\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: October 3, 2012 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Animal Collective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Centipede Hz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Domino Records)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4.5\/5\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nickolas Joy, contributing writer<\/p>\n

Centipede Hz,<\/em> like every other Animal Collective album, is completely different from every other Animal Collective album.<\/p>\n

The experimental rock band\u2019s ninth album comes three years after their biggest success, Merriweather Post Pavilion.<\/em> Centipede Hz<\/em> is filled with the pop elements that won Merriweather<\/em> such acclaim, but it has darker undertones.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a step away from their usual childlike freakiness and expresses a more solemn, spacey psychedelia. They moved away from being entirely sample-based, back to having a more traditional band dynamic.<\/p>\n

The songs are a danceable cluster of explosions strung together by the sounds of radio interference. For those who aren\u2019t already fans, this may not be the best first impression: the album is abrasive, dissonant, and confusing. However, if you can get past the white noise and crashing instrumentation, it\u2019s their poppiest and most understandable album to date.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Coheed and Cambria<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Afterman: Ascension<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Universal Records)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Darling, contributing writer<\/p>\n

Fans of epic stories woven around prog rock can rejoice: Coheed and Cambria are set to release another part of The Amory Wars<\/em> series with their sixth studio album, entitled The Afterman: Ascension.<\/em><\/p>\n

Every new album by this band is a chapter in an ongoing rock opera. There\u2019s always a varying degree of style to each of the stories\/songs on any Coheed album. Otherworldly intros give way to lead singer Claudio Sanchez\u2019s latest vision of his science-fiction universe.<\/p>\n

Songs like \u201cGoodnight Fair Lady\u201d feel almost poppy when put right before the voice-altered, train-on-the-tracks tempo of \u201cKey Entity Extraction II Hollywood the Cracked.\u201d There\u2019s softness in the mix, too, with the quiet lullaby of the album\u2019s final entry, \u201cSubtraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a cohesive theme running through this album, and that always interests me. Coheed and Cambria are selling an album in its entirety, and I\u2019m buying it.<\/p>\n

Danny Michel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blackbirds Are Dancing Over Me<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Six Shooter Records)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Darling, contributing writer<\/p>\n

Danny Michel relocated from his home in Ontario to the foot of the Xunantunich Mayan ruins in Belize to record Blackbirds Are Dancing Over Me,<\/em> his inventive 10th album.<\/p>\n

The vibes from the sounds and lyrics carry the listener to a different place. It\u2019s obvious from the very beginning that the music developed from a faraway land. It feels reminiscent of Paul Simon\u2019s Graceland<\/em> album, with its local vocal flavour and instruments.<\/p>\n

Still, Michel\u2019s songwriting is never overburdened by the music. Pleasing tunes like \u201cJust The Way I Am\u201d and \u201cBreak It You Buy It\u201d are perfectly accented by the percussion and guitar. \u201cThe First Night\u201d tells the tale of the girl who steals Michel\u2019s heart when he first arrives. \u201cDon\u2019t flatter yourself, boy,\u201d he sings, with a contagiously upbeat outlook.<\/p>\n

These are simply enjoyable tunes from a veteran Canadian artist.<\/p>\n

Dance Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interlopers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(independent)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Chris Johnson, contributing writer<\/p>\n

\u201cInterlopers<\/em> is for sad sacks and hopeful dreamers, dancers and sleepers, lovers and haters.\u201d So says the press material for Halifax\u2019s Dance Movie. The band\u2019s debut album is also for all the other people who don\u2019t end up where they thought they would.<\/p>\n

This indie-pop album is really easy to listen to, with great vocals, and it\u2019s all very melodically interesting. It can be kind of sad and sappy at times, then more upbeat and hopeful at other points.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the song \u201cMaps\u201d by New York indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs was used as the thesis for the creation of this album, which shows some strange kind of fanaticism from Dance Movie frontwoman Tara Thorne. The song \u201cMaps\u201d is sappy and romantic; Interlopers<\/em> tries to pull off the same emotions and does a pretty good job of it.<\/p>\n

Interlopers <\/em>is recommended for the dreamer type, as it allows the music to just carry you.<\/p>\n

NOFX<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Self Entitled<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(Fat Wreck Chords)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jason Schreurs, managing editor<\/p>\n

Three songs into the latest album by Los Angeles, CA pop-punk legends NOFX and that familar horse-gallop ennui sets in: yep, another album of two-to-three-minute, tongue-in-ass-cheek, sarcastic punk rock.<\/p>\n

In fact, the band\u2019s 12th album (how did that happen?!) is slightly more than a half hour of songs that sound pretty much like everything they\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n

Not as landmark in the snot-faced department as the band\u2019s classic early \u201990s output, like Ribbed<\/em> and White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean<\/em>, but these are different times, and the NOFX guys aren\u2019t getting any younger with age.<\/p>\n

Still, \u201cCell Out,\u201d with its frenetic riff and bug-eyed bass lines, could measure up against any of the band\u2019s upper echelon greatest hits.<\/p>\n

Lyrically,\u201cFat\u201d Mike Burkett is as shock-value punk as ever (see \u201c72 Hookers,\u201d promoting a prostitutes-for -world-peace agenda).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Animal Collective Centipede Hz (Domino Records) 4.5\/5\u00a0 Nickolas Joy, contributing writer Centipede Hz, like every other Animal Collective album, is completely different from every other Animal Collective album. The experimental rock band\u2019s ninth album comes three years after their biggest success, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Centipede Hz is filled with the pop elements that won Merriweather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-issue","category-october-3-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}